From: Emma Goldman Papers Project emma@uclink4.berkeley.edu
The staff of the Emma Goldman Papers are pleased to announce the publication of the first volume of Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume One, Made for America 1890-1901, published by the University of California Press. This first volume tracks Emma Goldman'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. Goldman's public ascendance is framed within a volatile period of political violence: within the first few pages, Henry Clay Frick, the anti-union industrialist, is shot by Alexander Berkman, Goldman's lover; the book ends with the assassination of President William McKinley, an act in which Goldman was implicated.
The volume includes personal correspondence, newspaper articles, government surveillance reports from America and Europe, courttranscripts, unpublished lecture notes, and an array of other rare items and documentation. Biographical, newspaper, and organizational appendixes are complemented by an in-depth chronology that underscores the complexity of Goldman's political and social milieu.
Themes that came to dominate Goldman's 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 importance of women's freedom, the dynamics of personal relationships, and strategies for a social revolution--are among the many introduced in Made for America.
More information about the book can be found at www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9079.html.
Jessica Moran
Assistant Editor
Emma Goldman Papers
UC Berkeley
510.642.4708
sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman