Discover information, advice, and prices for Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, priced at 20.11 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
A book of rare power and beauty majestic in its structure filled with the truth of imagination and the truth of actuality emphatic in its declarations and noble in its reachBayard Boyesen Mother Earth No other book discusses so frankly the criminal ways of the closed prison society Kenneth RexrothIn 1892 Alexander Berkman tried to assassinate Henry Clay Frick for the latters role in violently suppressing the Homestead Steel Strike Berkmans attempt was unsuccessful Berkman spent the next fourteen years in Pennsylvanias Western Penitentiary Upon release he wrote what was to become a classic of prison literature and a profound testament to human courage in the face of oppressionThis new edition of his account of those years is introduced and fully annotated by Barry Pateman and Jessica Moran both former associate editors of the Emma Goldman Papers at the University of California Berkeley Their efforts make this the definitive version of Berkmans tale of his transformation within prison his growing sympathy for those hed considered social parasites and the intimate relationships he developed with them Also includes neverbeforepublished facsimile reprints and transcriptions of the diary Berkman kept while he wrote this book conveying the difficulties he had reliving his experiencesAlexander Berkman 18701936 was a leading writer and militant in the anarchist movement and author of the classic primer What is AnarchismBarry Pateman was associate editor of Emma Goldman A Documentary History and editor of Chomsky on Anarchism He is a historian and member of the Kate Sharpley Library collectiveJessica Moran was an assistant editor of Emma Goldman A Documentary History She is a member of the Kate Sharpley Library collective and is an archivist currently living and working in New Zealand
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist sold for 24.71 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
In 1892 Alexander Berkman Russian émigré anarchist and lover of Emma Goldman attempted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick The act was intended both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as an incitement to revolution Captured and sentenced to serve a prison term of twentytwo years Berkman struggled to make sense of the shadowy and brutalized world of the prisonone that hardly conformed to revolutionary expectation
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Vitalsource Technologies Inc Prison Memoirs sold for 24 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Textbooks.com and made by Vitalsource Technologies, Inc..
A digital copy of Prison Memoirs Of An Anarchist by Berkman Download is immediately available upon purchase
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
EAN: 9781849352536
Find tips, reviews, and features on Prison Blossoms Anarchist Voices from sold for 38.33 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
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 anarchismMost 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 Americas 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
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Forty Years in the Struggle, priced at 99.54 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
This story told by one colorful figure among the anarchists of Philadelphia does not tell the entire story of the citys movement nor does one mans experience with anarchism present the long and dramatic saga of the idea and its believers The memoirs of Chaim Leib Weinberg offer an interesting sliver of a larger picture holding to an exclusively working class folkloric niche The author was an incredible orator and story teller these were the talents that set him apart from most of his contemporaries Because he devoted half a century to practicing his oral craft he left a clear mark on the radical culture he lived within
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Heresies Anarchist Memoirs Art sold for 26.22 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
A book in two parts with firstly reminiscences rants and anarchist inactivism in New York from circa 1984 onwards old stalwarts and comrades of Emma Goldman the Libertarian Book Club and Anarchist Forums the Autonomedia Collective the John Henry Mackay Society religion entheogens Luddism hoodoo paleolithic reactionaries and future primitivism Deep gossip demonic power tiny anarchies the end of the world and theories of everything Converted to anarchism by Krazy Kat comics at age 13 Peter Lamborn Wilson has devoted his political energies such as they be to its noble ideals and as Nietzsche says there are some causes one does not desert if only because it would give one s enemies too much satisfaction Hope against hope Thirty years of Armed Nostalgia Escapism Ontological Anarchy and the Temporary Autonomous Zone The latter half of this volume consists of essays on Symbolisme alchemy and anarchism in the arts with commentaries on William Morris Walter Crane Odilon Redon Max Klinger Stéphane Mallarmé Paul Signac Félix Fénéon Rube Goldberg Paul Gauguin Frantisek Kupka Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys George Herriman and many others
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on Forty Years in the Struggle sold for 39.06 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
This story told by one colorful figure among the anarchists of Philadelphia does not tell the entire story of the citys movement nor does one mans experience with anarchism present the long and dramatic saga of the idea and its believers The memoirs of Chaim Leib Weinberg offer an interesting sliver of a larger picture holding to an exclusively working class folkloric niche The author was an incredible orator and story teller these were the talents that set him apart from most of his contemporaries Because he devoted half a century to practicing his oral craft he left a clear mark on the radical culture he lived within
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on New Press Wrestling with the sold for 25.99 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to New Press and is sold by Textbooks.com.
A digital copy of Wrestling with the Devil A Prison Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiongo Download is immediately available upon purchase
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
EAN: 9781620973332
Find tips, reviews, and features on The Last Executioner Memoirs of sold for 24.1 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Chavoret Jaruboon was personally responsible for executing 55 prison inmates in Thailands infamous prisons As a boy he wanted to be a teacher like his father but his life changed when he chose one of the hardest jobs in the world Honest and often disturbing but told with surprising humour and emotion The Last Executioner is the remarkable story of a man who chose death as his vocation The Last Executioner is not for the faint hearted It takes you right behind the bars of the infamous Bangkok Hilton and into the shadows of its grim death chambers
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Fish A Memoir of a, priced at 20.26 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
When seventeenyearold T J Parsell held up the local Photo Mat with a toy gun he was sentenced to four and a half to fifteen years in prison The first night of his term four older inmates drugged Parsell and took turns raping him When they were through they flipped a coin to decide who would own him Forced to remain silent about his rape by a convict code among inmates one in which informers are murdered Parsells experience that first night haunted him throughout the rest of his sentence In an effort to silence the guilt and pain of its victims the issue of prisoner rape is a story that has not been told For the first time Parsell one of Americas leading spokespeople for prison reform shares the story of his coming of age behind bars He gives voice to countless others who have been exposed to an incarceration system that turns a blind eye to the abuse of the prisoners in its charge Since life behind bars is so often exploited by television and movie reenactments the real story has yet to be told Fish is the first breakout story to do that
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Prison Memoirs of a sold at 31.03 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Kaneko Fumiko 19031926 wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor Despite an early life of misery deprivation and hardship she grew up to be a strong and independent young woman When she moved to Tokyo in 1920 she gravitated to leftwing groups and eventually joined with the Korean nihilist Pak Yeol to form a twoperson nihilist organization Two days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake in a general wave of antileftist and antiKorean hysteria the authorities arrested the pair and charged them with high treason Defiant to the end she hanged herself in prison on July 23 1926 Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her the family that abused and neglected her and the imperial system that drove her to her death
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on This Is Not My Life sold at 24.92 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
From the Governor Generals Award winning author of Forms of Devotion Our Lady of the Lost and Found and By the BookNever once in my life had I dreamed of being in bed with a convicted killerFor almost six turbulent years awardwinning writer Diane Schoemperlen was involved with a prison inmate serving a life sentence for seconddegree murder The relationship surprised no one more than her How do you fall in love with a man with a violent past How do you date someone who is in prison This Is Not My Life is the story of the romance between Diane and Shanehow they met and fell in love how they navigated passes and parole and the obstacles facing a longterm prisoner attempting to return to society and how eventually things fell apart While no relationship takes place in a vacuum this is never more true than when that relationship is with a federal inmate In this candid often wry sometimes disturbing memoir Schoemperlen takes us inside this complex and difficult relationship as she journeys through the prison system with Shane Not only did this relationship enlarge her capacity for both empathy and compassion but it also forced her to more deeply examine herself
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for M E Sharpe Inc Prison, priced at 36.85 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Textbooks.com and made by M.E. Sharpe, Inc..
A digital copy of Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman by Kaneko Fumiko Download is immediately available upon purchase
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
EAN: 9780873328029
Discover information, advice, and prices for Man in Blue Pyjamas A sold for 27.2 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The style of my book must be in small pieces as my life has been in pieces Jalal Barzanji From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Husseins regime because of his literary and journalistic achievementswriting that openly explores themes of peace democracy and freedom It was not until 1998 when he and his family took refuge in Canada that he was able to consider speaking out fully on these topics Still due to economic necessity Barzanjis dream of writing had to wait until he was named Edmontons first WriterinExile in 2007 This literary memoir is the project Barzanji worked on while WriterinExile and it is the first translation of his work from Kurdish into English
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Against All Hope The Prison sold for 20.97 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
The author recounts his twentytwo year imprisonment for opposing the government of Fidel Castro and describes the treatment of Cuban political prisoners
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Find tips, reviews, and features on False Starts A Memoir of sold for 20.7 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
After getting arrested for petty burglary as a teenager Braly couldn t get a break and spent much of his life behind bars This is his searing autobiography from the author of Shake Him Till He Rattles and On the Yard
Condition: used
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for Eyes of the Tailless Animals sold for 39.17 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
On October 26 1986 Soon Ok Lee was enjoying a peaceful morning at work in Communist North Korea when her misery began As supervisor of the material distribution center she was summoned outside to speak to the bureau chief but was quickly shoved into a car and whisked away to the train station She did not return to her family that night In fact she would not see her husband alive again Instead she was taken to prison where she endured six years of inhumane treatment Soon Ok Lee learned that her crime was refusing to satisfy the greed of a government officer While in prison she witnessed the horrendous tortures and mass killings of Christians and could not understand why they stubbornly refused to bend to the governments demands that they deny their faith A mustread for anyone interested inside the North Korean prison system and the modern day equivalent of the Holocaust
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Explore tips, opinions, and features on Sara Prison Memoir of a sold at 28.75 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz codenamed Sara chronicles the Kurdish revolutionarys harrowing years in a Turkish prison following her arrest in 1979 at the age of 21 Jailed for more than a decade for her activities as a founder and leader of the Kurdish freedom movement she faced brutal conditions and was subjected to interrogation and torture Remarkably the story she tells here is foremost one of resistance with courageous episodes of collective struggle behind bars including hunger strikes and attempts at escape Along the way she also presents vivid portraits of her fellow prisoners and militants a snapshot of the Turkish left in the 1980s a scathing indictment of Turkeys war on Kurdish people and even an unlikely love story The first prison memoir by a Kurdish woman to be published in English this is an extraordinary document of an extraordinary life Translated by Janet Biehl
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
Discover information, advice, and prices for University of Toronto Press These sold for 42.6 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Textbooks.com and made by University of Toronto Press.
A digital copy of These Strange Criminals Prison Memoirs by Peter Brock Download is immediately available upon purchase
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
EAN: 9780802086617
Discover information, advice, and prices for Between 4 walls of the sold for 21.67 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Everything begins on my return to Rwanda begins Victoire Ingabire Umuhozas new book written from her prison cell Victoire Ingabire Umuhozas new book written from her prison cell After 16 years of exile in Holland Victoire decided to return to her home country This book recounts her life experience for 3 years from the moment she announced her candidacy for presidential elections to her incarceration into the famous 1930 maximum security prison In this book she describes her encounter with corrupt Rwandan judicial system from within Interrogations continuous threats fabricated charges her attempts to register her party the prohibition of visiting her family in the Netherlands especially not being able to attend her sons 8th birthday Those politicians are ruthless There are reasons to be afraid to live in this country I have just spent more than twelve hours behind bars having done nothing whatsoever The problem is not that they ignore who I am or that they dont know what is good for our fellow citizens they just dont want to run the risk of losing power
Condition: new
Disponibility: in_stock
Shipping: -1
