Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth

Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth (1906-1918) is the first collection of work drawn from the pages of the foremost anarchist journal published in America-provocative writings by Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, and dozens of other radical thinkers of the early twentieth century. For this expanded edition, editor Peter Glassgold contributes a new preface that offers historical; grounding to many of today's political movements, from liber-tarianism on the right to Occupy! actions on the left, as well as adding a substantial section, "The Trial and Conviction of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman," which includes a transcription of their eloquent and moving self-defense prior to their imprisonment and deportation on trumped-up charges of wartime espionage. Book jacket.

Peter Glassgold, novelist and literary translator, was an editor at New Directions from 1970 to 2005. He lives in upstate New York.