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Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). 551 pp., $29.50.

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Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). 551 pp., $29.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Louis Joughin
Louis Joughin*
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Washington, D. C.
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Social Science History , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 1986 , pp. 91 - 95
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1986 

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Notes

1 Avrich indirectly explains why he does not deal with the evidence and the law: “The defendants, in effect, had not been tried for murder, as charged in the indictment, but for their social and economic beliefs” (p. 283). Consequently, The Haymarket Tragedy does not deal with the appellate opinion of the Illinois Supreme Court, available in Northeastern Reporter 868-996 (1887). That document includes a 40-page summary of facts, two 4-page summaries on the law by counsel for the defense and the prosecution, and an opinion and notes by the court which runs to 82 pages.

2 Avrich writes: “From 1883 to 1886 virtually the whole social revolutionary movement was the expression of the ideas and vision of this one man” (p. 67).