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Title: Mostly fluff
Review: Three fourths of the book are excepts from the trial transcripts. They are cherry picked from the 5,000 pages in the Commonwealth ans Appel volumes, and no explanation is given as to what is included, and what was left out. Since what is included is about 10% of the total, this is a large gap.The last quarter of the book is the author critiquing other authors. There is little of substance here. He includes as a ground breaking discovery a letter about Orciani's effort to manufacture an alibi for Vanzetti's pistol. Without any other background on the strategies and tactics of the defense from 1920-27, this is out of context and meaningless for both new students to the case, and researchers.The book is not a comprehensive transcript. It is also not a history of the case. I am beyond annoyed that I bought this book, it is quite useless. At best it is a review of other people's work, and numerous online sites do the same, but more effectively.
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