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""Goyens comprehensively follows Most's development from childhood to adulthood and his activity in Europe and the US. Most's militancy helped create the stereotype of the anarchist as terrorist. Yet he was a complex figure whose interventions shed importa ""Goyens' book expertly demolishes myths and caricatures, while uniting the German and American halves of Johann Most's radical career through a meticulously documented transnational biography. Most emerges in the text as a formidable thinker as well as an electrifying activist."" --Kenyon Zimmer, coeditor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism

""Goyens' book expertly demolishes myths and caricatures, while uniting the German and American halves of Johann Most's radical career through a meticulously documented transnational biography. Most emerges in the text as a formidable thinker as well as an electrifying activist."" —Kenyon Zimmer, coeditor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism ""Goyens comprehensively follows Most's development from childhood to adulthood and his activity in Europe and the US. Most's militancy helped create the stereotype of the anarchist as terrorist. Yet he was a complex figure whose interventions shed importa

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Tom Goyens is a professor of history at Salisbury University. He is the author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914.

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