About this book
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Clarence Darrow. After the hanging of the Haymarket protesters in 1887, she became an anarchist. "Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law of trial by jury," she wrote in an autobiographical essay, "After that I never could." She was known as an excellent speaker and writer – in the opinion of biographer Paul Avrich, she was "a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist" – and as a tireless advocate for the anarchist cause, whose "religious zeal," according to Goldman, "stamped everything she did." (Wikipedia)
Chapters
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- 1The Dominant Idea41:52 · read by Rhonda Federman
- 2Anarchism50:04 · read by Rhonda Federman
- 3Anarchism and American Traditions40:59 · read by Rhonda Federman
- 4Anarchism in Literature41:22 · read by Rhonda Federman
- 5The Making of an Anarchist20:29 · read by Philippa
- 6The 11th November 188719:27 · read by Rhonda Federman
- 7Crime and Punishment, part 133:51 · read by Carl Manchester
- 8Crime and Punishment, part 234:54 · read by Carl Manchester
- 9In Defense of Emma Goldman31:22 · read by lukkystarr
- 10Direct Action49:26 · read by lukkystarr
- 11The Paris Commune20:49 · read by Carl Manchester
- 12The Mexican Revolution38:32 · read by Sibella Denton
- 13Thomas Paine17:24 · read by harsh365
- 14Dyer D. Lum27:46 · read by Heather Hogan
- 15Francisco Ferrer42:16 · read by Sibella Denton
- 16Modern Educational Reform40:15 · read by Philippa
- 17Sex Slavery31:09 · read by Kalynda
- 18Literature the Mirror of Man39:46 · read by RevRal
- 19The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 121:59 · read by Sibella Denton
- 20The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, part 225:54 · read by Sibella Denton
- 21They Who Marry Do Ill35:26 · read by Rhonda Federman
- 22The Economic Tendency of Freethought42:10 · read by lukkystarr
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