The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror /

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Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for lunch, a horse-cart packed with dynamite exploded. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded in the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. Historian Beverly Gage recounts that now lar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gage, Beverly
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Terrorism > New York (State) > New York > History.
Terrorism > United States > History.
Domestic terrorism > United States.
Terrorisme > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Terrorisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Terrorisme intérieur > États-Unis.
HISTORY > State & Local.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Domestic terrorism
Terrorism
Terrorismus
New York (State) > New York
United States
New York, NY
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The middle of things
  • The end of the world
  • The first terrorist act in America
  • American roughneck
  • The war at home
  • The great detectives
  • Business as usual
  • Usual suspects
  • A perfect alibi
  • The anarchist fighters
  • Illegal practices
  • The martyr who wasn't
  • The "great detective" returns
  • Triple-cross
  • The Wall Street curse
  • The roar of the twenties.

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