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One of the most famous political activists of all time, Emma Goldman was also infamous for her radical anarchist views and her “scandalous” personal life. In public, Goldman was a firebrand, confidently agitating for labor reform, anarchism, birth control, and women’s independence. But behind closed doors she was more vulnerable, especially when it came to the love of her life.  Love, Anarchy, & Emma Goldman is an account of Goldman’s legendary career as a political activist. But it is more than that—it is a biography that offers an intimate look at how Goldman’s passion for social reform dovetailed with her passion for one man: Chicago activist, hobo king, and red-light district gynecologist Ben Reitman. Candace Falk takes us into the heart of their tumultuous love affair, finding that even as Goldman lectured on free love, she confronted her own intense jealousy.    As director of the Emma Goldman papers, Falk had access to over 40,000 writings by Goldman—including her private letters and notes—and she draws upon these archives to give us a rare insight into this brilliant, complex woman’s thoughts. The result is both a riveting love story and a primer on an exciting, explosive era in American politics and intellectual life.

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From the first page on, I was totally absorbed in this 'memoir as vehicle for interpretation, ' as Greg Bottoms describes Lowest White Boy. It's a passionate hybrid text that moves seamlessly between the personal and the public, the timely and the timeless. Raised in Tidewater, Virginia, 'at ground zero of American slavery, ' Bottoms imagined as a young boy feeling the 'layers of time beneath [his] feet.' A gifted storyteller, he evokes this feeling in each of the poignant, troubling vignettes he offers his lucky readers. Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change Greg Bottoms takes readers on a journey through ignorance and enlightenment in this dazzling memoir about growing up white and working class in the slowly desegregating South. He treats his subjects with compassion as he explores the tangle of race relations in his childhood. Lowest White Boy should be read alongside Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, in that everyday experiences of racism are illuminated with rich and powerful meaning. A consummate storyteller, Bottoms brings to life a world that is rarely explored in contemporary conversations about racial strife. The result is a narrative that is as beautiful as it is instructive. Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Greg Bottoms is one of the most innovative and intriguing nonfiction writers at work, and this is his most powerful book to date, a crucial interrogation of whiteness, white supremacy, and the formation of one American lowest white boy. Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power I read Lowest White Boy with serious admiration. It's difficult to think of a timelier, nervier, more discomfiting, more pulse-quickening book than Greg Bottoms's impressive exploration of an extremely difficult subject. There is candor and then there is candor. This is candor. David Shields, author of Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season

From the first page on, I was totally absorbed in this 'memoir as vehicle for social interpretation,' as Greg Bottoms describes Lowest White Boy. It's a passionate hybrid text that moves seamlessly between the personal and the public, the timely and the timeless. Raised in Tidewater, Virginia, 'at ground zero of American slavery,' Bottoms imagined as a young boy feeling the 'layers of time beneath [his] feet.' A gifted storyteller, he evokes this feeling in each of the poignant, troubling vignettes he offers his lucky readers. - Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change

From the first page on, I was totally absorbed in this 'memoir as vehicle for social interpretation, ' as Greg Bottoms describes Lowest White Boy. It's a passionate hybrid text that moves seamlessly between the personal and the public, the timely and the timeless. Raised in Tidewater, Virginia, 'at ground zero of American slavery, ' Bottoms imagined as a young boy feeling the 'layers of time beneath [his] feet.' A gifted storyteller, he evokes this feeling in each of the poignant, troubling vignettes he offers his lucky readers. Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change Greg Bottoms is one of the most innovative and intriguing nonfiction writers at work, and this is his most powerful book to date, a crucial interrogation of whiteness, white supremacy, and the formation of one American lowest white boy. Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power I read Lowest White Boy with serious admiration. It's difficult to think of a timelier, nervier, more discomfiting, more pulse-quickening book than Greg Bottoms's impressive exploration of an extremely difficult subject. There is candor and then there is candor. This is candor. David Shields, author of Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season

"From the first page on, I was totally absorbed in this ‘memoir as vehicle for social interpretation,' as Greg Bottoms describes Lowest White Boy. It's a passionate hybrid text that moves seamlessly between the personal and the public, the timely and the timeless. Raised in Tidewater, Virginia, 'at ground zero of American slavery,' Bottoms imagined as a young boy feeling the 'layers of time beneath [his] feet.' A gifted storyteller, he evokes this feeling in each of the poignant, troubling vignettes he offers his lucky readers."""" - Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change"

From the first page on, I was totally absorbed in this 'memoir as vehicle for social interpretation, ' as Greg Bottoms describes Lowest White Boy. It's a passionate hybrid text that moves seamlessly between the personal and the public, the timely and the timeless. Raised in Tidewater, Virginia, 'at ground zero of American slavery, ' Bottoms imagined as a young boy feeling the 'layers of time beneath [his] feet.' A gifted storyteller, he evokes this feeling in each of the poignant, troubling vignettes he offers his lucky readers. Rebecca McClanahan, author of The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change

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Greg Bottoms is a professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is the author of many books, including Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness, The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art, and Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art and Faith.

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