All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca is a 1988 biography of Italian–American anarchist Carlo Tresca by Dorothy Gallagher.
 First edition | |
| Editor | Dorothy Gallagher |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | non-fiction, biography |
| Published | 1988 (Rutgers University Press) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 321 |
| ISBN | 9780813513102 |
| OCLC | 17225359 |
Reception
editThe New York Review of Books called All the Right Enemies a "cool, almost laconic, recital", and wrote "it reads like an inspired police report. Yet her restraint serves to enhance the violence and passion of the events she recounts."[1]
All the Right Enemies has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[2] Italian Americana magazine,[3] Kirkus Reviews,[4] Commentary,[5] Dissent,[6] Washington Monthly,[7] The Nation,[8] and The Journal of American History.[9]
It was a 1988 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.[10]
References
edit- ^ Daniel Aaron (June 15, 1989). "Who Killed Carlo Tresca?". The New York Review of Books. 36 (10). Retrieved May 3, 2017.
- ^ "All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. November 3, 1988. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
This first biography of Tresca is levelheaded and exhaustively researched.
- ^ Daniel Georianna (1990). "Reviews: All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca". Italian Americana. 9 (1). City University of New York: 93–97. JSTOR 29776078.
- ^ "All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca". Kirkus Media LLC. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
Gallagher's own efforts to include gossip, love affairs, emotional states all fall flat. All the details are here, but they never crystallize into a compelling story until the book's shorter second part, the unraveling of Tresca's murder. In all, a stolid, reportorial history.
- ^ Stephan Schwartz (November 1, 1988). "Political Murder (subscription required)". Commentary. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
- ^ "From a Heroic Past". Dissent. University of Pennsylvania Press: 409, 410. 1989.
- ^ Harvey Klehr (November 1988). "Political Booknotes". Washington Monthly: 59.
- ^ Maurice Isserman (October 10, 1988). "Threads of Conspiracy". The Nation: 322, 323.
- ^ "All the Right Enemies". The Journal of American History. 76 (2). Organization of American Historians: 647. September 1989. doi:10.2307/1908091. JSTOR 1908091.
- ^ "Christmas Books; Notable Books of the Year". New York Times. March 4, 2001. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
A first-class book, extraordinarily well researched
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