Documentary of the American Years

Defines the historical memory of Emma Goldman and illuminates a facet of the history of American and European radicalism. This work includes personal correspondence, newspaper articles, government surveillance reports from America and Europe, dramatic court transcripts, lecture notes, and an array of other rare items and documentation.

Goldman appears as a rising luminary in the mainstream press - a voice against hypocrisy and a lightning rod of curiosity, intrigue, and sometimes fear. The volumes include newspaper accounts of the speaking tours across America that eventually established her reputation as one of the most challenging and passionate orators of the twentieth century. Themes that came to dominate Goldman's life - anarchism and its possibilities, free speech, education, the transformative power and social significance of literature, the position of labor within the capitalist economic system, the vital importance of women's freedom, the dynamics of personal relationships, and strategies for a social revolution - are among the many introduced in Made for America.