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Boston

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It was the parlor-maid who found Old Josiah in the morning, seated at his desk, his head fallen forward upon his arms. He might have been asleep, but his dinner-coat told her that he had not been to bed. She stood in the door-way, whispering his name feebly; then she fled to Addicks, the butler, who was privileged to make intrusions. He touched his master’s hand and found that it was cold. So Cornelia Thornwell was awakened and told of her release.

Upton Sinclair's 1928 documentary novel dramatizing the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Italian anarchists executed in 1927 after a trial widely condemned as unjust. Told partly through the eyes of Cornelia Thornwell, an elderly Boston Brahmin widow who abandons her privileged life to work alongside immigrant laborers and becomes drawn into the fight to save the two men, Boston is Sinclair's furious indictment of class prejudice, xenophobia, and the failures of the American justice system.

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