Anarchy in the U.S. PBS' 'American Experience' dares to give Emma Goldman her due.(Time Out!)

From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | Date: April 9, 2004| Author: Cox, Ted | Copyright information

Byline: Ted Cox Daily Herald TV/Radio Columnist

Next week, PBS' "American Experience" takes on the topic of a Jewish Russian emigre of the 19th century, a woman who argued forcibly for anarchy and revolution for decades, to the point where she was deported shortly after World War I.

Unlikely as it seems, she turns out to be just maybe the most American subject this all-American documentary series has ever tackled.

"Emma Goldman" debuts at 9 p.m. Mon...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Dancing at the Revolution; Emma Goldman; A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1; Made for America, 1890-1901
Forward ; Dalton, Dennis G. Forward 07-25-2003 Dennis Dalton is a professor of political science at Barnard College. `I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful radiant things." That is what anarchism meant to Emma Goldman, the Jewish immigrant from Russia who emerged, at
Emma Goldman: an intimate life.
The Nation ; For a while, back in California, all my friends had cuts named Emma. I do remember an occasional dog (like Candace Falk's alternately wild and loving Red Emma Goldman), hamster, affinity group (I once marched past the White House behind something called the Emma Goldman Brigade) and Feminist
Love, anarchy, and Emma Goldman.
The Nation ; Neither Alice Wexler's Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life nor Candace Falk's Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman strike me as an ideal way of bringing Red Emma back to life. Taken together they're fascinating, like views of a specimen through two different microscopes neither of which shows its subject
ON TRIAL: CONFLICTING VERSIONS OF EMMA GOLDMAN'S ADDRESS TO THE JURY
Rhetoric & Public Affairs ; Little attention has been given to the fact that there is no known stenographic account of Emma Goldman's July 9, 1917, address to the jury. Nor have scholars recognized the extent of the differences between the two printed versions of the speech, one in the July 1917 issue of Goldman's magazine
Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War.
The Nation ; ... the remainder of her life. Like almost all anarchists, Emma Goldman was wary of the Bolsheviks when the first euphoria at the news of October had passed. In 1918 she wrote, As an anarchist I am opposed to the rigid centralization the Boyl. proclaim and as ...