Prison Blossoms : Anarchist Voices from the American Past / Bonnie Cleo Buettner, Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, Carl Nold, Miriam Brody.
Berkman, Alexander, author.; Bauer, Henry, author.; Buettner, Bonnie Cleo, author.; Nold, Carl, author.
2012
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Prison Blossoms : Anarchist Voices from the American Past / Bonnie Cleo Buettner, Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, Carl Nold, Miriam Brody.
Author
Berkman, Alexander, author.
ISBN
9780674066618
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674066618
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
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©2011
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English
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In English.
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10.4159/harvard.9780674066618 doi
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HX843.5.B47 2011eb
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335.8309748
Summary
In 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine called "Prison Blossoms." This extraordinary series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the ";beautiful ideal"; of communal anarchism.Most of the ";Prison Blossoms"; were smuggled out of the penitentiary to fellow comrades, including Emma Goldman, as the nucleus of an exposé of prison conditions in America's Gilded Age. Those that survived relatively unrecognized for a century in an international archive are here transcribed, translated, edited, and published for the first time. Born at a unique historical moment, when European anarchism and American labor unrest converged, as each sought to repel the excesses of monopoly capitalism, these prison blossoms peer into the heart of political radicalism and its fervent hope of freedom from state and religious coercion.
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Bauer, Henry, author.
Buettner, Bonnie Cleo, author.
Nold, Carl, author.
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Introduction
PART I. Remembering Homestead - The Strike and the Jails
CHAPTER 1. Capital and the Battle on the Monongahela / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 2. A Fateful Leaflet / BAUER, HENRY
CHAPTER 3. Autobiographical Sketches / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 4. Jail Experiences / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 5. Further Arrests / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 6. An American Court Farce / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 7. Two Further Court Farces / BAUER, HENRY
PART II. Debating the Act-Assassination and Propaganda by Deed
CHAPTER 8. A Few Words as to My Deed / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 9. The Red Bugbear / NOLD, CARL / BAUER, HENRY
CHAPTER 10. Tolstoi or Bakunin? / NOLD, CARL
PART III. Surviving Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary
CHAPTER 11. Our Prison Life: Second Half (February 1895-May 1897 / BAUER, HENRY
CHAPTER 12. Penitentiary Administration and Treatment of Prisoners / BAUER, HENRY
CHAPTER 13. The Treatment of Prisoner A-444, in His Own Words
CHAPTER 14. The Shop-Screw / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 15. The Trusted Prisoner / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 16. Dialogue between Two Prisoners / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 17. A Morning Conversation between Dutch and Mike (Two Prisoners) / NOLD, CARL
PART IV. Defending Anarchy-The Case against Church and State
CHAPTER 18. Prisons and Crime / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 19. Prisons and Crime / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 20. Prisons and Crime / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 21. Libertas: An Orthographical Study / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 22. The Vision in the Penitentiary Cell / NOLD, CARL
CHAPTER 23. The Sinking Ship: A Parable / BERKMAN, ALEXANDER
CHAPTER 24. Winter Sun for My Prison Colleagues M & G, 1 January 1896 / NOLD, CARL
APPENDIX 1. Last Days in the Penitentiary: Excerpts from the Diary of Alexander Berkman
APPENDIX 2. Alexander Berkman's Bibliography
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Acknowledgments

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