The "trial" of Ferrer: a clerical-judicial murder. A review of the Ferrer "trial" based on professor L. Simarro's "The trial of Ferrer and European opinion."
New York: New York Labor News Co., 1918. 45p., staplebound wraps, minor edgewear and handling, otherwise very good. Second edition of de Angulo's first book.
The author, an immigrant of Spanish ancestry who was studying at Johns Hopkins and active in the Baltimore branch of the Socialist Labor Party at the time of writing, went on to become an important researcher of Native American languages and ethnomusicology in California, as well as a Bohemian participant in the west coast counterculture. He is mentioned as the "mad Spanish anthropologist sage" in Jack Kerouac's "Desolation Angels," was admired by Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg, and has been credited by Gary Snyder as an important influence. Wendy Leeds-Hurwit has written about his career in "Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology." His Big Sur ranch is now a retreat. Here he discusses L. Simarro’s two-volume work on the trial of Francisco Ferrer, the anarchist founder of the Modern School movement, who was executed in 1909 for involvement with an insurrection in Spain. In the course of his review of the book, de Angulo effectively presents an overview of the original case.
Cat.No: 260687
Price: $150.00