Credentials:
Independent Scholar/Author specializing in California and Alaskan History; Boom and Bust in the Alaska Goldfields, Greenwood, 2007
In THE COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE 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.
Market:
Labor History,U.S.,California History,20th c, San Francisco,World War 1,the Progressive Movement, American Anarchism,American Penal/Corrections history, Origins of Terrorism, Socialism,20th c.
ISBN:
Paper: 978-1-933146799/ 1933146-79-6
Publisher:
ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036