Life of an Anarchist
The Alexander Berkman Reader
Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons hired by Frick had opened fire on the Homestead strikers, killing men, women, and children. Berkman's bungled attempt cost him fifteen years in a federal penitentiary. Upon his release, he became an effective agitator against conscription and was again imprisoned and eventually deported to Russia,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60980-006-2
- EAN: 9781609800062
- Produktnummer: 15736631
- Verlag: Seven Stories Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'900 KB
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GENE FELLNER is an activist and artist living in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he edits and illustrates the GLF Occasional. He has been a staffworker for the Attica Brothers Legal Defense and a founder of the Cold Type Organizing Committee. In 1987 he was named Distinguished Artist by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts.
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