The Story of a Proletarian Life. Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1924.

Translated from the Italian by Eugene Lyons, who wrote (and translated into Italian) Vita e morte di Sacco e Vanzetti, also in the collection in both its English original and Italian translation. It contains a forward by Alice Stone Blackwell and an appreciation by Upton Sinclair.

This is one of the few English-language works in the collection, included both because it was originally written in Italian and translated here, but also because of the centrality of the Sacco and Vanzetti arrest, trial and execution in Italian American history in general and of anarchism in particular.

The execution of these two immigrants was an event that caused a mixture of anger, repression and denial in that community. It is perhaps more responsible than any event - other than the passage of time - for the diminishment of radical political activity in the immigrant Italian American community, and for hastening its disconnection from the Italian language.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee

1924

22 x 15cm; 24 p.

English