Word: joughin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti" Edmund M. Morgan of the Harvard Law School, a top expert on the law of evidence, and G. Louis Joughin of the New School for Social Research have combined to write what is undoubtedly the most detailed and comprehensive study of the case and its affects. In separate and yet dovetailing sections of the book, the authors have examined the highly complicated legal aspects together with the resulting sociological reflections...
...second part of the book, Professor Joughin shows how society, both in the immediate locality and the rest of the world, reacted to this case. When the lines were drawn, the temper of both sides erupted in all the usual outlets of public opinion--newspaper columns, speeches, meetings, petitions, and floods of letters to the authorities. The pros and cons were divided into what Dos Passes called "Two Nations," and Professor Joughin uses this phrase as a title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance...
...Part III of the book, Professor Joughin traces the influence of the case on the literature of the time, giving a brief but wholly adequate comments on the many poems, novels, and plays which were concerned with the case. From beginning to end the Arts were entirely on the side of the defense, in general taking the view that two innocent and friendless men were being railroaded to the electric chair because their radical views conflicted with the conservative temper of the community. A notable exception to this rule was Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. As the dominant member...
Professor Joughin winds up his contribution with two moving chapters devoted to the personalities of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a final chapter entitled "The Legacy of Literature: Faith," which deals with the first historical judgments on the case...