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In his book Boston, Upton Sinclair turns his muckraking eye to the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of murder in a 1920 robbery in Massachusetts. Sinclair makes an impassioned case for their innocence and portrays their trial as a gross miscarriage of justice, brought on by xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. Drawing on real events and court records, Sinclair uses fiction to expose the prejudices that led to the controversial conviction and execution of the two men by electric chair, galvanizing public opinion against the verdict.
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