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Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years redefines the
historical memory of Emma Goldman and illuminates a forgotten yet influential
facet in the history of American and European radicalism. This definitive
multivolume work, which differs significantly from Goldman's autobiography,
presents original texts - a significant group of which are published or
translated into English for the first time - anchored by rigorous contextual
annotations. The distillation of years of scholarly research, these volumes
include personal correspondence, newspaper articles, government surveillance
reports from America and Europe, dramatic court transcripts, lecture notes, and
previously unpublished documents retrieved from obscurity. Biographical,
newspaper, and organizational appendices are complemented by in-depth
chronologies that underscore the complexity of Goldman's political and social
milieu. Making Speech Free, 1902-1909, the second volume in the series, chronicles
Goldman's pivotal role in the early battle for free expression. It highlights
the relationship between the development of the right of free speech and
turn-of-the-century anarchist ideas. The enactment of anti-anarchist laws and
the organization of groups in protest occupy center stage among the primary
documents. Within this frame, the volume presents Goldman's evolving attitudes
toward violence in both its European and American contexts, the emergent
revolution in Russia, and the beginnings of the Modern School education
movement in America, the social significance of European modern drama, and the
right of labor to organize against unfair working conditions in the United
States. The volume features the early evolution of Goldman's magazine, Mother
Earth, launched in 1906, which promoted a blending of modern literary and
cultural ideas into her radical and social political agenda and became a
platform for the articulation of her feminist critique, an expression of her
international reach, and a marker of her desire to spread anarchist ideas
outside the immigrant left. Making Speech Free also tracks Goldman's emergence as a writer and orator
whose scathing critique of hypocrisy in all realms of life and politics would
eventually capture the attention and imagination of America.
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