Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American committee devoted to ferreting out 'Un- American activities' among the laboring poor, union leaders, progressive politicians and social activists. The Preparedness Day bombing of 1916 was the catalyst (along with the "Los Angeles Times" bombing several years earlier) for full scale civic strife and class violence in San Francisco. The committee railroaded two men to the death house - Tom Mooney and Warren Billings - and their cause became one of...
Steven Levi discusses and analyzes the rise and fall of the last of the old western vigilance committees - and the rise of the first modern American c...
