"'[T]he pride of an old Commonwealth, the zealotry of a judge and DA, the indifference of too many Americans, and the flexible morals of too many witnesses led to a denial of justice,' Watson concludes. Yet he also points out that Sacco and Vanzetti 'believed in armed insurrection' and that none of those 'poets, playwrights, and novelists' who took up their cause 'hinted that the men were militant revolutionaries, that the slightest evidence had been presented against them, or that they had been fully armed when arrested.' And he includes Upton Sinclair's assertion, in a recently discovered letter, that Sacco and Vanzetti's head defense lawyer told him the pair were out to hide dynamite on the night of their arrest. One way or another, there was bound to be an explosion."
Art Winslow reviews Bruce Watson's Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind in the Los Angeles Times.
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