America 1940-1949: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 69 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1940-1949.

America 1940-1949: Law and Justice Research Article from American Decades

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The answer to that question is, most likely, the Mafia. Carlo Tresca was born the son of a wealthy landowning family in Sulmona, Italy, in 1879. By the middle of the 1890s, however, the family had lost its land and privileged status due to a series of bad investments and a poor economy. He was deeply disappointed by these events, and his disenchantment with the status quo led him to turn to anarchism as a political philosophy. He found employment as the editor of the Socialist Party newspaper in Italy but was forced to flee to America when his diatribes earned him too many enemies. It was in America that he eventually became well known as an anti-Communist and an anti-Fascist. In that role he used much of his energy to rage against Benito Mussolini in the Italian-language newspaper that he published, Il...

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