A Proud Anarchist! The Spirit of "Red Emma."

This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, iPad e-book reader, iPhone e-book reader, BlackBerry e-book reader, Android e-book reader, iPod e-book reader and your Amazon Desktop Reader.Definition of ANARCHIST1: a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power2: a person who believes in, advocates, or promotes anarchism or anarchy; especially : one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order— anarchist or an·ar·chis·tic adjectiveEmma Goldman (also known Red Emma) was an anarchist, feminist, rebel and free speech activist. She became one of the most outspoken and well-known of American radicals, lecturing and writing on anarchism, women’s rights and other political topics. Here are sixteen of her most controversial essays.Emma Goldman served prison and jail terms for such activities as advising the unemployed to take bread if their pleas for food were not answered, for giving information in a lecture on birth control, for opposing military conscription, and in 1908 she was deprived of her citizenship.In 1917, with Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman was convicted of conspiracy against the draft laws, and sentenced to to years in prison and fined $10,000.In 1919 Emma Goldman, along with her long-time associate Alexander Berkman and 247 others who had been targeted in the Red Scare after World War I, emigrated to Russia on the Buford. But Emma Goldman’s libertarian socialism led to her Disillusionment in Russia, as the title of her 1923 work says it.Obviously, an anthology of this nature will not please everybody perfectly because there is a wide variety of themes and stylistic approaches represented in this book. Nevertheless, this is an excellent collection of stories from a wide variety of different themes, styles, viewpoints, subjects, tones and genres.In this collection of Essay 1: What It Really Stands ForEssay 2: Minorities Versus MajoritiesEssay 3: The Psychology of Political ViolenceEssay 4: A Social Crime and FailureEssay 5: A Menace to LibertyEssay 6: Francisco Ferrer and The Modern SchoolEssay 7: The Hypocrisy of PuritanismEssay 8: The Traffic in WomenEssay 9: Woman SuffrageEssay 10: The Tragedy of Woman’s EmancipationEssay 11: Marriage and LoveEssay 12: The A Powerful Disseminator of Radical ThoughtEssay 13: The Founding of Mother Earth, The Only Anarchist Monthly in AmericaEssay 14: A Letter to the EditorEssay 15: The Child and Its EnemiesEssay 16: The Failure of ChristianityA must-have for fans of political anarchy texts!