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Hello, Univ. of Gloucestershire. My 2008 book on Sacco and Vanzetti has new evidence I found in Dexter, Maine. Please see website of Doug Linder.
Douglas Linder, professor of law at UMKC School of Law, says Kill Now, Talk Forever (2008 edition) “is the most exhaustively researched book on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.” Permission for use is granted by Professor Linder. I quote key primary sources at Harvard Law School Library and Dexter, Maine. These sources are omitted in “celebrated” books on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 2004-2007. I quote C. C. Palmer's June 17, 1921, letter to Katzmann on Vanzetti's revolver. Palmer, a Maine State policeman from Dexter, told Katzmann that Mrs. Fred Moore, wife of defense attorney, and Ricardo Orciani came to Dexter --first Orciani, then Mrs. Moore--to beg Elbridge Atwater and Rexford Slater to testify on this revolver. No other book on the Sacco-Vanzetti case has cited Palmer’s letter that inculpates Vanzetti.. Or the companion document , March 5, 1964, from a Dexter newspaper: Atwater's inaccurate report on Vanzetti's revolver from his recollection.
The 2007 edition of my book received commendations (below).
I submit my credentials on Sacco and Vanzetti.
9 reasons (below) why the Univ. of Gloucestershire Library should add my book: Kill Now, Talk Forever: Debating Sacco and Vanzetti (2008).
(NOTE: Dexter, Maine--hometown of two defense witnesses on Vanzetti’s revolver.)
1. Kill Now, Talk Forever: Debating Sacco and Vanzetti is cited in a textbook by W. W. Norton & Co., America: A Narrative History (2007), 7th edition, vol. 2.
--Co-authors, Drs. George Brown Tindall and David Emory Shi, write (p. 990): “ The controversial Sacco and Vanzetti case is thoroughly explored in Kill Now, Talk Forever: Debating Sacco and Vanzetti, edited by Richard Newby.”
Tindall and Shi state (p. 969): “ . . . the evidence convicting them was compelling; . . .” [Richard Newby persuaded Tindall and Shi to revise their analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti case.]
2. “Richard Newby is a first-rate scholar. He gets to the center of subjects. His book excerpts important documents on Sacco and Vanzetti and highlights new evidence he discovered in 2005.”
--Robert H. Ferrell, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Indiana University, Bloomington
3. "Kill Now, Talk Forever has many of the better aspects of a case book, with its excellent research/study/writing topics and its very useful transcripts. I could see it being adopted by school libraries as a basic reference text for this fascinating topic."
---Anthony Arthur, Professor of English Emeritus, California State University at Northridge. Arthur is the author of Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair, Random House, 2006, and five other books.
4. “Richard Newby, Kill Now, Talk Forever: Debating Sacco and Vanzetti (Bloomington, IN, 2001), provides another valuable source of documents.”
--James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, After the Fact: The Art of Hi
storical Detection, Fifth edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005, p. 287.
Items in my research:
5. The Oxford Companion to United States History has factual errors on Sacco and Vanzetti (p. 681). I notified Paul S. Boyer, Editor in Chief, of Lynn Dumenil’s errors.
6. Entry on Sacco and Vanzetti in Encyclopaedia Britannica was changed in 1991 printing after I called attention in 1988 to Britannica’s biased appended bibliography.
7. Entry on Sacco and Vanzetti in The World Book Encyclopedia (2007) does not cite Judy Monroe’s book on Sacco and Vanzetti. Monroe is cited in editions 2001-2006.
I e-mailed the CEO and called attention to Monroe’s egregious factual errors and plagiarism.
8. See Bruce Watson’s 2007 book on Sacco and Vanzetti. Mr.Watson’s report on Vanzetti’s revolver, p. 141, omits Dexter, Maine, and he omits Atwater
altogether. He omits 10 key documents.
9. My letter in the Journal of American History (March 2008, Vol. 94, No. 4, p. 1335. Professor Lisa McGirr, Harvard University, declined to respond to my letter, which challenges her March 2007 article in the JAH. Best regards. rnewby@ilstu.edu -- Richard Newby