Emma Goldman, Vol. 2 A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909

"This volume, along with its predecessor and the larger microfilm collection of Goldman documents, is a real achievement and a major contribution to the study of the American left. It will, one hopes, inspire scholars, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students to explore the history of that struggle between free speech and free assembly, on the one hand, and the combined forces of power, prudery, and patriotism, on the other."--Francis G. Couvares, Labor History

"The volumes expand access to materials essential to understanding American history, especially struggles over radical politics, the position of women, free speech, violence as a means of social change, government repression, and the place of the individual in American myth and culture."--Documentary Editing

"[Goldman's career] as her adoptive country's most notorious anarchist [is] richly displayed in these two volumes of documentary history." --London Review of Books "A major contribution to the history of anarchism and its place in the broader left . . . . Reading these collections nearly recreates the experience of going to the library and jumping headfirst into archival research."--Against the Current "A magnificently scholarly volume rich in historical information, it is a book that historians and those writing about American social movements will mine for many years to come."--Sharon Presley, Social Anarchism