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andldquo;Vision on Fire is a historical treasure.andrdquo;andmdash;Howard Zinn
This carefully chosen collection features the most important writings from the turbulent last four years of Emma Goldmanandrsquo;s life. This incredible follow-up her popular autobiography, Living My Life, reveals her struggles with the contradictions of the Spanish Revolution and her efforts to maintain integrity and vision in the heat of political activism.
An influential and well-known anarchist, Emma Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, feminism, and workersandrsquo; rights.
David Porter received his PhD from Columbia University. He has taught for two decades at Empire State College.
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The "most dangerous woman alive" in the most inspring revolution of modern history.
Synopsis
Cultural Writing. Politics and History. Women's Studies. Edited by David Porter, this carefully chosen collection features the most important writings from the turbulent last four years of influential anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman's life. An incredible follow-up to her popular autobiography, Living My Life, VISION ON FIRE reveals Goldman's struggles with the contradictions of the Spanish Revolution and her efforts to maintain integrity and vision in the heat of political activism. "VISION ON FIRE is a historical treasure"--Howard Zinn. Also be sure to check out EMMA GOLDMAN: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN YEARS, also available from SPD.
About the Author
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her time, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women?s rights, and union organization. To this day she remains one of the most recognizable figures in anarchist history. David Porter studied political science, sociology and economics at Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. He's taught at colleges in Brooklyn, Montreal, and Maryland and for two decades at Empire State College. Over four decades, he has investigated and written on a variety of grassroots contexts of community participatory empowerment, historically and in the present, in the U.S. and abroad.