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Genre/Form: | History Books |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Avrich; Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) |
ISBN: | 0691047111 9780691047119 0691006008 9780691006000 |
OCLC Number: | 10273006 |
Description: | xv, 535 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Pt. I: Albert Parsons. An American boyhood -- Labor agitator -- The great strike -- From socialism to anarchism -- Part II: Anarchists. Social revolutionaries -- The Pittsburgh Congress -- The International Working People's Association -- The American group -- August spies -- Counterculture -- The intransigents -- Cult of dynamite -- Part III: Haymarket. On the eve -- The bomb -- Red scare -- The fugitive -- The trial -- The verdict -- Part IV: The ordeal. The appeal -- Convicts -- Gorvenor Oglesby -- Springfield -- The scaffold -- Part V: The aftermath. Repercussions -- The pardon -- The legacy -- The bombthrower -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | Paul Avrich. |
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"What makes [this book] so valuable is that Avrich has shown us a time when anarchism breathed life into American politics, and not simply when it drew its last breath in Chicago."--The New Republic "Critics have been asking, where are the studies of American working-class history that arc also in the best literary tradition? Where among serious scholars today is the art of historical narrative? Here is the answer, in Paul Avrich's finest book."--Paul Berman, Village Voice Literary Supplement Read more...
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