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Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical Cover Image Book Book

Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical

Jones, Jacqueline 1948- (author.).

Summary: "From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket "martyr" Albert Parsons-Lucy was a fearless advocate of First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and one of the most prominent figures of African descent of her era. And yet, her life was riddled with contradictions-she advocated violence without apology, concocted a Hispanic-Indian identity for herself, and ignored the plight of African Americans. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Jacqueline Jones presents not only the exceptional life of the famous American-born anarchist but also an authoritative account of her times-from slavery through the Great Depression"--

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  • ISBN: 9780465078998
  • ISBN: 0465078990
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 447 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-415) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part 1: An enduring Civil War -- Wide-open Waco -- Republican heyday -- Part 2: Gilded Age dynamite -- A local war -- Farewell to the ballot box -- A false alarm? -- Haymarket -- Bitter fruit of braggadocio -- "The dusky goddess of anarchy speaks her mind" -- The blood of my husband -- Part 3: Blatherkite -- Goddess of free speech -- The widow Parsons sets her course -- Variety in life, and its crimes -- Tending the sacred flame of Haymarket -- Wars at home and abroad -- Part 4: The falling curtain of mystery -- Facts and fine-spun theories -- Epilogue.

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Subject: Parsons, Lucy E. (Lucy Eldine) 1853-1942
Anarchists United States Biography
Working class United States History
Labor movement United States History
Genre: Biographies.

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