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

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"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-wher...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Parsons, Lucy E. > (Lucy Eldine), > 1853-1942.
Anarchists > United States > Biography.
Working class > United States > History.
Labor movement > United States > History.
Anarchistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > États-Unis > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Anarchists.
Labor movement.
Working class.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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