February 27, 2009

81 Years Before 9/11, There Was 9/16; The Big Picture, With Details; Wehrmacht's Jews, in Their Own Words

By KACIE GLENN

At noon on September 16, 1920, as workers in New York's financial district took to the streets for lunch, a bomb exploded on the corner of Wall Street and Broad Street. Thirty-nine people were killed and hundreds injured. Investigators found that the bomb had been planted on a horse-drawn wagon — by whom, they didn't know.

In The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (Oxford University Press), Beverly Gage chronicles what was, at that point,

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