Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical

From a prize winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she lived Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas where she met her husband, the Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons Lucy was a fearless advocate of First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and one of the most prominent figures of African descent of her era And yet, her life was riddled with contradictions she advocated violence without apology, concocted a Hispanic Indian identity for herself, and ignored the plight of African Americans.Drawing on a wealth of new sources, Jacqueline Jones presents not only the exceptional life of the famous American born anarchist but also an authoritative account of her times from slavery through the Great Depression. Free Read Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr In the history of American anarchy, women loom large Most significant among these may be Emma Goldman, who to be honest was something of a stage hog Not that I don t respect her, but when you read her autobio, the many bios of her, and the first person recollections of Goldman captured in Paul Avrich s Anarchist Voices, the picture that emerges is of a woman who was committed to an ideal, but also saw herself as the best possible vessel for communicatin...Jones goes into as much detail as she can dig up from historical archives newspaper clippings, which I greatly appreciate One of my favorites is the 1886 newspaper headline Poor Oliver Gathings His Pretty Mulatto Wife Whom Albert Parsons Stole Away, as if nothing else newsworthy was going on in 1886 Texas She makes sure to set the political and historical context for each time period, the same way that Paula Giddings does in her 800 page biography of Ida B Wells However, Jones goes into as much detail...Lots of interesting information, less thrilled with the author s often obvious disdain for Parsons politics.excellent for feminists, anarchists, free thinkers.Fascinating biography about a fascinating figure The background to Parson s life also serves as a history of the labor movement and Leftist politics in the U.S.,which I found interesting The writing is terrific and Parsons emerges as a comp...Lucy Parsons spent her life offending, agitating, and generally shit stirring We all know people like this They are important for challenging the rest of us encouraging us to examine our values, to do better, or to acknowledge the limits of what we find acceptable But they are generally not kind, generous, empathetic, or even sincere believers in the causes they espouse This book left me suspicious about how much Parsons truly believed in the cause of anarchism it seems likely that she Lucy Parsons spent her life offending, agitating, and generally shit stirring We all know people like this They are important for challenging the rest of us encouraging us t...I finished this book on a Friday night, sitting alone in a parking lot eating pupusas and curtido While I felt definitively good about my late night fare, I remained undecided about the overall tone of this book at least in some places By this, I mean that Jones definitely had a very specific slant on things, and wasn t afraid to assert her own perspective and values on Parsons life and decisions, as well as other individuals discussed such as Lucy Parsons husband All this to say that I finished this book on a Friday night, sitting alone in a parking lot eating pupusas and curtido While I felt definitively good about my late night fare, I remained undecided about the overall tone of this book at least in some places By this, I mean that Jones definitely had a very specific slant on things, and wasn t afraid to assert her own perspective and values on Parsons life and decisions, as well as other individuals discussed such as Lucy Parsons husband All this to say that this was certainly no hagiography, which I m okay with I just guess certain judgements made on Lucy Parsons e.g her violent rhetoric , weren t adequately framed or contextualized for me At least not explicitly Jones does go into the violence of both state and capital, but does not draw causation from that to the radical and revolutionary rhetoric of violence that surfaces and resonates with the working class You certainly see something like this in biblical texts, whether und...A fascinating, warts and all biography of a great American radical, a fiery voice of revolution in the labor movement and other causes.BIOGRAPHY HISTORYJacqueline JonesGoddess of Anarchy The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American RadicalBasic BooksHardcover, 978 0 4650 7899 8, also available as an e book, an audiobook, and on audio CD , 480 pgs., 32.00December 2017Lucy Parsons Slave, freedwoman, student, wife, mother, writer, editor, internationally renowned orator, socialist, communist, anarchist, cipher From her birth to a slave in antebellum Virginia in 1851, to her education and formative years in Reconstruction era BIOGRAPHY HISTORYJacqueline JonesGoddess of Anarchy The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American RadicalBasic BooksHardcover, 978 0 4650 7899 8, also available as an e book, an audiobook, and on audio CD , 480 pgs., 32.00December 2017Lucy Parsons Slave, freedwoman, student, wife, mother, writer, editor, internationally renowned orator, socialist, communist, anarchist, cipher From her birth to a slave in antebellum Virginia in 1851, to her education and formative years in Reconstruction era Waco, Texas, where she married Albert Parsons, an Anglo man who would later be hanged in connection with the bombing of Haymarket Square, to swiftly industrializing Chicago in the Gilded Age, until her death in 1942, Parsons fought for the laboring masses, freedom of sp...Thought this was an excellent well researched book The audio recording was very badly done and would not recommend.

• English
• 20 January 2019
Jacqueline Jones
• Hardcover
• 480 pages
• 0465078990
• Jacqueline Jones
• Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical