Emma Goldman : revolution as a way of life / Vivian Gornick.
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Format: | Book |
| Summary: | The story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power--these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount. Anarchist par excellence, Goldman is one of the memorable political figures of our time, not because of her gift for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some extraordinary force of life in her burned, without rest or respite, on behalf of human integrity--and she was able to make the thousands of people who, for decades on end, flocked to her lectures, feel intimately connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that integrity. --From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 151 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Notes: | Bib#: 1666861 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | Jewish lives
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| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780300137262 (alk. paper) 0300137265 (alk. paper) |
| Bib#: | 1666861 |
