In 1895, when Oscar Wilde was arrested for "Gross Indecency," it was not only his sexuality, but also his art, that stood accused. During his trials, the opposing counsel cited the evidence of some of Wilde's aphorisms, his poems, a letter to Lord Alfred Douglas -- "those red rose-leaf lips of yours ... have been made ... for madness of kisses" -- and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrants, were executed for a pair of murders connected with a payroll heist a few years earlier.
The book Anti-Security represents a frontal attack on the concept of security, its internal logic, the politics surrounding it, and the institutions that employ it as a rationale.
While imprisoned for the attempted assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, three anarchists -- Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold -- published a sort of underground magazine, by and for the men with whom they were jailed.
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