Anarchy in Bay View's Little Italy September 9, 1917 And the Shocking Aftermath by Anna. M. Passante

This local history traces a 1917 anarchist riot in my neighborhood that was followed by a bombing at a Milwaukee police station that claimed ten lives - IIRC, the deadliest domestic terror attack until Oklahoma City. Eight people were put on trial for the riot and convicted largely b/c of anger over the bomb; the state Supreme Court rightly threw out the convictions and chastised the trial judge. A stiff, clumsily written book, it lacks any knack for storytelling and confines its research to newspaper accounts of the day. Still, interesting enough facts to keep your attention.