In exploring the turbulence of that era, he draws compelling portraits of the revolutionaries Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, both émigrés to the United States from tsarist Russia. Berkman ...

Goldman's circle of friends and associates — especially Alexander Berkman, a professional typesetter — helped shape each issue at meetings in Goldman's apartment. "My room was the living ...

She has been traveling to speak on anarchism, women and marriage, Spanish political events, and Alexander Berkman's imprisonment for the murder of Henry Clay Frick. After keeping Goldman in jail ...