TY - BOOK ID - 77874026 TI - The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror PY - 2009 SN - 1281930873 9786611930875 0199722412 9780199722419 9780195148244 019514824X 9781281930873 6611930876 019974372X PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Terrorism KW - Domestic terrorism KW - Acts of terrorism KW - Attacks, Terrorist KW - Global terrorism KW - International terrorism KW - Political terrorism KW - Terror attacks KW - Terrorist acts KW - Terrorist attacks KW - World terrorism KW - Direct action KW - Insurgency KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Subversive activities KW - Political violence KW - Terror KW - History. KW - New York (State) KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - History KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874026 AB - Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of that once infamous but now largely forgotten event. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historic ER -