This book contains 180 interviews conducted over a period of 30 years.
The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and
represent all schools of anarchism. Each of the six thematic sections
begins with an explanatory essay, and each interview with a biographical
note. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such
anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti. This work
of impeccable scholarship is an invaluable resource not only for
scholars of anarchism but also for those studying immigration, ethnic
politics, education, and labor history.
Paul Avrich is a professor of history at Queens College and the
Graduate School of the City University of New York.