American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Willrich Michael
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Willrich Michael A timely new history of America's anarchist movement and the…
Specifikacia American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Willrich Michael
American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Willrich Michael
A timely new history of America's anarchist movement and the government's tireless efforts to destroy itIn the early twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property. But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology. Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants.
The lawyers who came to the anarchists' defense advanced groundbreaking arguments for free speech and due process, inspiring the emergence of the civil liberties movement. Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long "war on anarchy," a brutal program of spying, censorship, and deportation that set the foundations of the modern surveillance state. American Anarchy tells the gripping tale of the anarchists, their allies, and