Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti vs Roads to Freedom: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Anarchists, Anarchism, Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction
Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti
“NICOLA SACCO was twenty-nine years old when with Vanzetti he was arrested on a street car in Brockton, Massachusetts, on May 5, 1920.”
From the Publisher: Electrocuted in 1927 for the murder of two guards in Massachusetts, the Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti defied the verdict against them, maintaining their innocence…
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Roads to Freedom
THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose Republic''…
The verdict
- Roads to Freedom is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 7 for Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (1064) |
| Hardcover | — | 4.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (14) |
Reception
| Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti | Roads to Freedom | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | — | 1064 |
| Editions | 19 | 59 |
| Citations | — | 33 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 3470 |
| Reading it now | — | 174 |
| Written reviews | — | 115 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1448 |
| Pages | 414 | 158 |