The Day Wall Street Exploded

Outstanding. --New York Times Book Review Ms. Gage is a storyteller...she leaves it to her readers to draw their own connections as they digest her engageing narrative. --The New York Times Gage has produced an uncommonly intelligent, witty and vibrant account. She has performed a real service in presenting such a complicated case in such a fair and balanced way. --San Francisco Chronicle Writer and historian Gage presents a gripping account of class war and violence during the turn of the 20th century. Weaving the story of the explosion and botched investigation with a masterful account of labor unrest over preceding demecades, this is a highly relevant, hard to put down history of terror and civil liberties in America. --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) The best account of the vicious 1920 cluster-bombing on Wall Street. --Mike Wallace, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 The fearful politics of the last decade are a tale foretold in this extraordinary history of the original 'war on terrorism' and its sinister legacies. -Mike Davis, author of Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb Like all good historians, Beverly Gage is a great story-teller, and what a timely tale she has to tell in The Day Wall Street Exploded. With subtlety, precision, and in a captivating prose style, she recalls for us that moment in September 1920 when 'a bomb planted on a horse-drawn wagon exploded into the lunchtime crowd at Wall and Broad.' Her story begins with the deed, but goes far beyond it to describe the nationwide search for the responsible 'terrorists' and the short- and long-range effects on American politics, society, and culture of that extended manhunt. --David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Chief: The Life and Times of William Randolph Hearst Brisk, suspenseful and richly documented... --The Chicago Tribune Beverly Gage has written a richly detailed and superbly rendered history of one of the worst--and most neglected--terrorist bombings in American history... Gage's account...reads like a great detective novel. --Journal of American History