An American Anarchist

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849352690
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Anarchist written by Paul Avrich and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An American Anarchist closes a major gap in our understanding of American an- archism and particularly a gap in our understanding of its deep roots in American radicalism. It makes the same contribution to our understanding of American feminism.” —Richard Drinnon, author of Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman "Paul Avrich's book is very well researched—it fascinated me as I am sure it will fascinate many other people who are interested in the anarchist personality." —George Woodcock An American Anarchist marked the trail historians of American anarchism are still following today: above all else, to understand anarchists as human beings. Narrative-driven like all of Paul Avrich’s works, this story highlights famous characters like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and the infamous, like Dyer D. Lum—Voltairine de Cleyre’s lover and the man who sneaked a dynamite cartridge into Louis Lingg’s cell so the accused Haymarket Martyr could die at his own hand and not the state’s. De Cleyre (1866–1912), born in Michigan, is noted as the first prominent American-born anarchist. From her voluminous writings and speeches, the illnesses that plagued her, the shooting on a streetcar in Philadelphia that left de Cleyre clinging for life, to her eventual death at forty- five in Chicago, she worked tirelessly for her ideal.

Author : Carlotta R. Anderson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814343279
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All-American Anarchist written by Carlotta R. Anderson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from a childhood among a Pottawatomie tribe in the Michigan woods through his local and national involvement in a maze of late nineteenth-century labor and reform activities, including participation in the Socialist Labor party, Knights of Labor, Greenback movement, trades councils, typographical union, eight-hour-day campaigns, and the rise of the American Federation of Labor. Although he received almost no formal education, Labadie was a critical thinker and writer, contributing a column titled "Cranky Notions" to Benjamin Tucker's Liberty, the most important journal of American anarchism. He interacted with such influential rebels and reformers as Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, Henry George, Samuel Gompers, and Terence V. Powderly, and was also a poet of both protest and sentiment, composing more than five hundred poems between 1900 and 1920. Affectionately known as Detroit's "Gentle Anarchist," Labadie's flamboyant and amiable personality counteracted his caustic writings, making him one of the city's most popular figures throughout his long life despite his dissident ideals. His individualistic anarchist philosophy was also balanced by his conventional personal life - he was married to a devout Catholic and even worked for the city's water commission to make ends meet. In writing this biography of her grandfather, Carlotta R. Anderson consulted the renowned Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, a unique collection of protest literature which extensively documents pivotal times in American labor history and radical history. She also had available a large collection of family scrapbooks, letters, photographs, and Labadie's personal account book. Including passages from Labadie's vast writings, poems, and letters, All-American Anarchist traces America's recurring anti-anarchist and anti-radical frenzy and repression, from the 1886 Haymarket bombing backlash to the Red Scares of the twentieth century.

Author : Steve J. Shone
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004251952
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Anarchism written by Steve J. Shone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Anarchism by Steve J. Shone is a work of political theory and history that focuses on nineteenth century American Anarchism, together with two European anarchists who influenced some of the Americans. The nine thinkers discussed are Alexander Berkman, Voltairine de Cleyre, Samuel Fielden, Luigi Galleani, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Max Stirner, William Graham Sumner, and Benjamin Tucker. Shone emphasizes the value of using ideas from nineteenth century American Anarchism to solve contemporary political problems.

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227586
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anarchist Voices written by Paul Avrich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public's conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This abridged edition contains fifty-three interviews conducted by Avrich over a period of thirty years, interviews that portray the human dimensions of a movement much maligned by the authorities and contemporary journalists. Most of the interviewees (anarchists as well as their friends and relatives) were active during the heyday of the movement, between the 1880s and the 1930s. They represent all schools of anarchism and include both famous figures and minor ones, previously overlooked by most historians. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti.

Author : William Bailie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josiah Warren, the First American Anarchist written by William Bailie and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve J. Shone
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739144529
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist written by Steve J. Shone and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist is the first book-length exposition of the ideas of the American anarchist and abolitionist who lived mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1808 to 1887. Few people today are familiar with Spooner. Nonetheless, there are many interesting strands of original thought to be found in his works that have contemporary significance_for example his reflections on the need for jury nullification or his devastating critique of the social contract. Rediscovering Spooner today is no mere investigation of a bygone nineteenth century thinker, but rather a gateway to a brilliant and original scholar whose counsel should not be ignored.

Author : James J. Martin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789128110
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men Against the State written by James J. Martin and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...the starting point for anyone concerned with the antecedents of libertarianism in the United States...” MEN AGAINST THE STATE first appeared in the spring of 1953. Within a matter of months it had received nearly fifty highly commendatory reviews in thirteen countries in seven languages. Few products of American scholarly research in our time have gained more widespread international respect in such a short time. This book brought back into view a tradition which almost disappeared between the beginning of the First World War and the end of the Second, the philosophy and deeds of anti-statist libertarian voluntarism in the United States during the three generations which flourished between 1825 and 1910, in a style which a London commentator described as “a model of readable scholarship.” In the 1950s, the era of the “organization man” and almost unparalleled political passivity, MEN AGAINST THE STATE may have been a premature book, as some have observed, despite being reprinted two more times later in the decade. This quiet and unsensational circulation continued to further its reputation, nevertheless. In the last ten years however it has been recognized by many as the starting point for anyone concerned with the antecedents of libertarianism in the United States. The spread of interest in such thinking among a new generation has prompted the reissuance of this book, in a conventionally-printed popularly priced edition for the first time.

Author : Reg Theriault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780926664173
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Anarchist's Tale written by Reg Theriault and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Magdalena Modrzejewska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788376388083
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Josiah Warren - The First American Anarchist written by Magdalena Modrzejewska and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlotta R. Anderson
Publisher : African American Life Series
ISBN 13 : 9780814343265
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All-American Anarchist written by Carlotta R. Anderson and published by African American Life Series. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All-American Anarchist offers a comprehensive biography of influential Detroit labor activist Joseph A. Labadie.