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Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, by Francis Russell. McGraw-Hill, $7.95

As a source of analytical literature, the Sacco-Vanzetti case will never surpass the American Civil War; the yield and further potential of that literary Mesabi make its preeminence secure. What happened on a street in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, or even in the ensuing seven years of trials, ap- | peals and popular protests, can never furnish forth a belletristic feast to / compare with the death struggle of the Blue and the Gray.

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Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, by Francis Russell. McGraw-Hill, $7.95

As a source of analytical literature, the Sacco-Vanzetti case will never surpass the American Civil War; the yield and further potential of that literary Mesabi make its preeminence secure. What happened on a street in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, or even in the ensuing seven years of trials, ap- | peals and popular protests, can never furnish forth a belletristic feast to / compare with the death struggle of the Blue and the Gray.