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The Case That Will Not Die By Herbert B. Ehrmann

Little, Brown, $12.50 After an intense experience of a human event that is rich in incident and pain you would expect a detailed renewal to move you again. Once again, as during my study of the case a few years ago, I went through the streets, the trials, and the executions of the immigrant idealists Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet I felt as I did at a recent science-fiction film, pausing with the traveler at an efficient Howard Johnson refreshment stand in space: an empty universe, cold, mechanical and meaningless.

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The Case That Will Not Die By Herbert B. Ehrmann

Little, Brown, $12.50 After an intense experience of a human event that is rich in incident and pain you would expect a detailed renewal to move you again. Once again, as during my study of the case a few years ago, I went through the streets, the trials, and the executions of the immigrant idealists Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet I felt as I did at a recent science-fiction film, pausing with the traveler at an efficient Howard Johnson refreshment stand in space: an empty universe, cold, mechanical and meaningless.