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After his attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick (the architect of the Homestead Steel massacre) in 1892, Alexander Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in Western Penitentiary where he penned this classic political memoir. Originally published in 1912 by Emma Goldman's Mother Earth Press, this is the first completely annotated edition of a book known for its keen insights into both the motivations behind 'extremist' acts and the oppressive features of prison life. It is also the moving story of one man's ethical and political education.

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Alexander Berkman: Alexander Berkman was a leading writer and participant in the 20th century Anarchist movement. The young, idealistic Berkman practiced propaganda by deed attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892. While imprisoned, he wrote the classic tale of prison life Prison Memoirs of and Anarchist. After his release, Berkman edited Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and his own paper The Blast!. Deported from New York City to his native Russia in 1919, were he saw first hand the failure of the Bolshevik revolution and dedicated himself to writing the classic primer on Anarchism, What is Anarchism?. Barry Pateman: Barry Pateman is the curator of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley and wrote the introduction to AK Press' Chomsky on Anarchism.

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