Prison blossoms : anarchist voices from the American past /
In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmate...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | John Harvard library.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine called "Prison Blossoms." This extraordinary series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the "beautiful ideal" of communal anarchism. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook History Collection |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (lxiv, 253 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780674068186 0674068181 9780674066618 0674066618 |
