Nunzio Pernicone: 2 books
Assassins against the Old Order
Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siecle Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross but persistent stereotype: a swarthy "Italian" armed with a bloody knife or revolver and bred to violence by a combination of radical politics,...
Carlo Tresca
Portrait of a Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Nunzio Pernicone’s biography uses Carlo Tresca’s (1879-1943) storied life?as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism?as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf...