Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror

Did you get drawn into the Netflix true-crime binge phenomenon, Making a Murderer? If so, you likely recall Dean Strang, the defense lawyer whose wry, earnest intelligence and "normcore style" have made him an unlikely (and unwilling) heartthrob. But did you know that attorney Strang wrote his own book in 2013, concerning a crime—the still unsolved 1917 bombing of a Milwaukee police station and the conviction of eleven Italian immigrants for an unrelated crime in the atmosphere of terror that followed—that raises many of the same issues of corruption, prejudged convictions, and fallible justice as his own case a century later. I brought in a copy out of curiosity and haven't had a chance to do more than skim it, but it looks intriguing (especially if you imagine Strang's Bob Odenkirk voice as you read).