All the Right Enemies explained
| All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca |
| Editor: | Dorothy Gallagher |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | non-fiction, biography |
| Published: | 1988 (Rutgers University Press) |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages: | 321 |
| Isbn: | 9780813513102 |
| Oclc: | 17225359 |
All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca is a 1988 biography of Italian–American anarchist Carlo Tresca by Dorothy Gallagher.
Reception
The 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]
Notes and References
- June 15, 1989 . Who Killed Carlo Tresca? . Daniel Aaron . The New York Review of Books . 36 . 10 . May 3, 2017.
- Web site: All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca . This first biography of Tresca is levelheaded and exhaustively researched. . November 3, 1988 . Publishers Weekly . PWxyz LLC. May 1, 2017.
- 1990 . Reviews: All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca . Daniel Georianna . 29776078. Italian Americana . City University of New York . 9 . 1 . 93–97 .
- Web site: All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca . 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. . Kirkus Media LLC . May 1, 2017.
- November 1, 1988 . Political Murder (subscription required) . Stephan Schwartz . Commentary . May 3, 2017.
- 1989 . From a Heroic Past . Dissent . University of Pennsylvania Press . 409, 410.
- November 1988 . Political Booknotes . Harvey Klehr . Washington Monthly . 59 .
- October 10, 1988 . Threads of Conspiracy . Maurice Isserman . The Nation . 322, 323.
- September 1989 . All the Right Enemies . The Journal of American History . Organization of American Historians . 76 . 2 . 647 . 10.2307/1908091 . 1908091 .
- News: Christmas Books; Notable Books of the Year . March 4, 2001 . A first-class book, extraordinarily well researched . New York Times . May 3, 2017.
