Emma Goldman: a Documentary History of the American Years: Made for America, 1890 - 1901

"This collection is an excellent overview of Goldman's early years and is recommended for larger public and all academic libraries."-Library Journal Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years redefines the historical memory of Emma Goldman and illuminates a forgotten yet influential facet of the history of American and European radicalism. Made For America, 1890–1901 is the first of five volumes -providing a documentary history of the life, work, and ideas of Goldman. Over 650 pages of original texts--letters, speeches, and newspaper articles by, about, and to anarchism's leading lady, all anthologized for the first time and painstakingly annotated, introduced, and contextualized. This first volume tracks the young Emma's introduction into the anarchist movement, features her earliest known writings in the German anarchist press, and charts her gradual emergence from the radical immigrant circles of New York City's Lower East Side into a political and intellectual culture of both national and international importance. Themes that came to dominate her life-anarchism and its possibilities, free speech, education, the transformative power and social significance of literature, the position of labor within the capitalist economic system, the vital importance of women's freedom, the dynamics of personal relationships, and strategies for social revolution-are among the many introduced here. Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her time, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, women's equality and independence, and union organization. To this day she remains one of the most recognizable figures in anarchist history. Barry Pateman is the curator of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley. Candace Falk is the founder and executive director of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley.