"From John Florio and Emmy Award-winning writer Ouisie Shapiro comes a monumental YA nonfiction book about the heartbreaking case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who were wrongfully executed for murder. In the early 1920s, a Red Scare gripped America. Many of those targeted were Italians, Eastern Europeans, and other immigrants. When an armed robbery resulting in the death of two people broke headlines in Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti--both Italian immigrants--were quick to be accused. A heated trial ensued, but through it all, the two men maintained their innocence. The controversial case quickly rippled past borders as it became increasingly clear that Sacco and Vanzetti were fated for a death sentence. Protests sprang up around the world to fight for their lives. Learn the tragic history we dare not repeat in Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream, an action-packed, fast-paced nonfiction book filled with issues that still resonate today"--Provided by the publisher.

April 15, 1920 -- Part one, America, 1908-1920 -- Nicola Sacco: life is beautiful -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti: stranger in a new land -- Words of Beltrando Brini -- The great war -- Letter from Bartolomeo to his family -- Panic -- Crackdown -- Crazier and crazier -- Excerpt from The deportations delirium of nineteen-twenty -- Puffer's Place -- Arrested -- Charged -- Letter form Bartolomeo to his father -- Words of Nicola -- Part two, The trial, 1921 -- "Your goose is cooked" -- Twelve white men -- Letter from Bartolomeo to his father -- "That man there" -- Letter from Bartolomeo to his father -- Alibis -- Bartolomeo takes the stand -- Nicola in the witness box -- A dilemma -- Waiting -- Excerpt from the Boston Globe -- Closing remarks -- The verdict -- Letter from Bartolomeo to Elizabeth Glendower Evans -- Part three, Posttrial, 1921-1927 -- "Save Sacco and Vanzetti" -- Protests, bombs, grenades -- Letter from Nicola to friends -- Letter form Bartolomeo to Luigia -- "I kept them alive" -- Behind bars -- "I hear by confess" -- Marking time -- Letter from Nicola to Ines -- Letter from Nicola to Dante -- August 23, 1927 -- "Long live anarchy" -- The world protests -- The march -- Letter from Nicola and Bartolomeo to the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee -- Epilogue -- Quote from Bartolomeo.