VIGILANTE! The Story of Americans...Then and Now...Guarding Each Other.

Hardback, 1st US edn. Vigilantes are, and have always been, 2n the American scene. Now the author has written a vigorous and comprehensive account of the vigilante reaction - the desire for order without law - tracing its roots from colonial days to America's Bicentennial Year. Features the bitter Regulator-Moderator wars; the famous San Francisco committee (1856), the lynching of 11 reputedly Mafia-linked Sicilians in New Orleans in 1891, the hanging spree that exterminated the infamous Plummer gang in Montana in the 1860's, and much more. The author analysis of the psychology of the typcial vigilante is forthright and fascinating. Illus., Notes, Bibliog. and Index. 311pp. 8vo. h/back. Review copy with loosely inserted slip. With tiny name/date insc. to fpd o/w Vg+ in Vg+ dw.