A timely new history of America\'s anarchist movement and the government\'s tireless efforts to destroy it In the early Twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property.
American Anarchy tells the gripping tale of the anarchists, their allies, and their enemies, showing how their battles over freedom and power still shape our public life..
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.
But to many others, anarchism was a terrifyingly foreign ideology.
Militant and sometimes violent, anarchists were heroes to many working-class immigrants.
A timely new history of America\'s anarchist movement and the government\'s tireless efforts to destroy it In the early Twentieth century, anarchists like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman championed a radical vision of a world without states, laws, or private property
