{"product_id":"emma-goldman-revolution-as-a-way-of-life","title":"Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEmma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eVivian Gornick\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780300137262\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eYale University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by the celebrated author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEmma Goldman\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of power--these were key demands in the many public protest movements she helped mount.\u003cp\u003eAnarchist par excellence, Goldman is one of the memorable political figures of our time, not because of her gift for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some extraordinary force of life in her burned, without rest or respite, on behalf of human integrity--and she was able to make the thousands of people who, for decades on end, flocked to her lectures, feel intimately connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that integrity. To hear Emma describe, in language as magnetic as it was illuminating, what the boot felt like on the neck, was to experience the mythic quality of organized oppression. As the women and men in her audience listened to her, the homeliness of their own small lives became invested with a sense of drama that acted as a catalyst for the wild, vagrant hope that things need not always be as they were. All you had to do, she promised, was resist. In time, she herself would become a world-famous symbol for the spirit of resistance to the power of institutional authority over the lone individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEmma Goldman, \u003c\/i\u003e Vivian Gornick draws a surpassingly intimate and insightful portrait of a woman of heroic proportions whose performance on the stage of history did what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: it made people love life more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e About Jewish Lives: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More praise for Jewish Lives: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Excellent\" -New York Times \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Exemplary\" -Wall Street Journal \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Distinguished\" -New Yorker \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Superb\" -The Guardian\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life | Vivian Gornick | Hardcover | 9780300137262 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks I 1754028","offer_id":49002541056152,"sku":"1754028","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61omjNPVBdL.jpg?v=1778257308","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/emma-goldman-revolution-as-a-way-of-life","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}