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| Author | Alice Wexler |
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| Original title | Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life |
| Subject | Biography |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Pages | 339 |
Emma Goldman in America is a biography of Emma Goldman by historian Alice Wexler originally published as Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life in 1984. It covers the first five decades of Goldman's life. Wexler published a second volume on the remainder: Emma Goldman in Exile (1989).
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Emma Goldman was a Lithuanian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Ben Lewis Reitman M.D. (1879–1943) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor. He is best remembered today as one of radical Emma Goldman's lovers. Martin Scorsese's 1972 feature film Boxcar Bertha is based on one of Reitman's books.
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) is a collection of essays written by Emma Goldman, first published by Mother Earth Publishing Association. The essays outline Goldman's anarchist views on a number of subjects, most notably the oppression of women and perceived shortcomings of first wave feminism, but also prisons, political violence, sexuality, religion, nationalism and art theory. Hippolyte Havel contributed a short biography of Goldman to the anthology. The essays were adapted from lectures Goldman had given on fundraising tours for her journal Mother Earth.Anarchism and Other Essays was Goldman's first published book. "The Traffic in Women" has received particular attention from feminist scholars since the book's publication.
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman is a 2012 history book about Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman. The book was co-authored by the father-daughter pair Paul and Karen Avrich, and posthumously published after Paul's death. It was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice for 2012.
The Russian Anarchists is a history book by Paul Avrich about the Russian anarchist movement from the 19th century to the Bolshevik revolution.
An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre is book written by Paul Avrich. It is a biography of Voltairine de Cleyre.
The Haymarket Tragedy is a 1984 history book by Paul Avrich about the Haymarket affair and the resulting trial.
Anarchist Portraits is a 1988 history book by Paul Avrich about the lives and personalities of multiple prominent and inconspicuous anarchists.
The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945–1980 is a 1983 history book by Diane Ravitch that describes the postwar progressive education movement and American school reform of the mid-20th century.
Radical Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought is a 1973 book by Lewis Perry on radicals in the abolition movement.
Émile Durkheim: His Life and Work is a 1972 biography of the sociologist Emile Durkheim written by Steven Lukes.
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years is a collection of original documents pertaining to anarchist Emma Goldman's time spent in the United States. Prepared by Candace Falk, founding director of the Emma Goldman Research Project at the University of California, Berkeley, the documents cover Goldman's career from her 1890 arrival in the United States through her 1919 deportation to Russia.
Taylor Stoehr (1931–2013) was an American professor and author. He edited several volumes of Paul Goodman's work as his literary executor.
Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman: A Biography is a 1984 biography of Emma Goldman by Candace Falk. It is based on letters from Goldman's ten-year love affair with Ben Reitman.
Alice Ruth Wexler is an American author and historian. She has written two biographies on the anarchist Emma Goldman. Wexler has also written about Huntington's disease, which has affected her family and which her younger sister, Nancy Wexler, researches.
Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War is a 1989 biography of Emma Goldman by historian Alice Wexler. It is a sequel to Emma Goldman in America (1984), which covers Goldman's first five decades.
Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman is a 1961 biography of Emma Goldman by historian Richard Drinnon.
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers is a 1971 biography of Eleanor Roosevelt written by Joseph P. Lash. Its companion volume, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972), covers her life as a widow after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death.
Beyond the Martyrs: A Social History of Chicago's Anarchists, 1870–1900 is a 1988 history of anarchism in Chicago written by Bruce C. Nelson and published by Rutgers University Press.
