Anarchist Portraits

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The biographies here, intriguing in themselves, have a powerful cumulative effect that increases our awareness of the influence of the anarchist movement during its heyday in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-and of the appeal that it had for members of protest movements during the 1960s and 1970s.

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"It is ... in Mr. Avrich's composite picture of anarchism in America that the contradictions, the strength and weaknesses of anarchism as an ideology, as well as the extraordinary dedication and strength of character of its exponents, can be seen most clearly."--James Joll, New York Times Book Review "Believers in anarchism, along with those willing to probe beyond the rote dismissals of the creed as a violent tumult, have a rare intellectual feast in Avrich's work."--Colman McCarthy, Washington Post Book World "So powerfully does [Avrich] make his case that sometimes in Anarchist Portraits the impossible dream seems not quite so impossible."--Gary Kern, Washington Times "Avrich is the foremost American scholar of anarchism in this generation."--Robert Zaller, Philadelphia Inquirer