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Remembering Homestead - The Strike and the Jails -- $tCHAPTER 1. Capital and the Battle on the Monongahela / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 2. A Fateful Leaflet / $rBAUER, HENRY -- $tCHAPTER 3. Autobiographical Sketches / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 4. Jail Experiences / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 5. Further Arrests / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 6. An American Court Farce / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 7. Two Further Court Farces / $rBAUER, HENRY -- $tPART II. Debating the Act-Assassination and Propaganda by Deed -- $tCHAPTER 8. A Few Words as to My Deed / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 9. The Red Bugbear / $rNOLD, CARL / BAUER, HENRY -- $tCHAPTER 10. Tolstoi or Bakunin? / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tPART III. Surviving Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary -- $tCHAPTER 11. Our Prison Life: Second Half (February 1895-May 1897 / $rBAUER, HENRY -- $tCHAPTER 12. Penitentiary Administration and Treatment of Prisoners / $rBAUER, HENRY -- $tCHAPTER 13. The Treatment of Prisoner A-444, in His Own Words -- $tCHAPTER 14. The Shop-Screw / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 15. The Trusted Prisoner / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 16. Dialogue between Two Prisoners / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 17. A Morning Conversation between Dutch and Mike (Two Prisoners) / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tPART IV. Defending Anarchy-The Case against Church and State -- $tCHAPTER 18. Prisons and Crime / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 19. Prisons and Crime / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 20. Prisons and Crime / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 21. Libertas: An Orthographical Study / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 22. The Vision in the Penitentiary Cell / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tCHAPTER 23. The Sinking Ship: A Parable / $rBERKMAN, ALEXANDER -- $tCHAPTER 24. Winter Sun for My Prison Colleagues M & G, 1 January 1896 / $rNOLD, CARL -- $tAPPENDIX 1. Last Days in the Penitentiary: Excerpts from the Diary of Alexander Berkman -- $tAPPENDIX 2. Alexander Berkman's Bibliography -- $tNotes -- $tFurther Reading -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1892, unrepentant anarchists Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold were sent to the Western Pennsylvania State Penitentiary for the attempted assassination of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Searching for a way to continue their radical politics and to proselytize among their fellow inmates, these men circulated messages of hope and engagement via primitive means and sympathetic prisoners. On odd bits of paper, in German and in English, they shared their thoughts and feelings in a handwritten clandestine magazine called "Prison Blossoms." This extraordinary series of essays on anarchism and revolutionary deeds, of prison portraits and narratives of homosexuality among inmates, and utopian poems and fables of a new world to come not only exposed the brutal conditions in American prisons, where punishment cells and starvation diets reigned, but expressed a continuing faith in the ";beautiful ideal"; of communal anarchism.Most of the ";Prison Blossoms"; were smuggled out of the penitentiary to fellow comrades, including Emma Goldman, as the nucleus of an exposé of prison conditions in America's Gilded Age. Those that survived relatively unrecognized for a century in an international archive are here transcribed, translated, edited, and published for the first time. Born at a unique historical moment, when European anarchism and American labor unrest converged, as each sought to repel the excesses of monopoly capitalism, these prison blossoms peer into the heart of political radicalism and its fervent hope of freedom from state and religious coercion. 410 0$aJohn Harvard library. 606 $aAnarchists$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPrisoners$zPennsylvania$vBiography 615 0$aAnarchists$xHistory. 615 0$aPrisoners 676 $a335/.8309748 700 $aBerkman$b Alexander$f1870-1936.$0538018 702 $aBauer$b Henry, 702 $aBuettner$b Bonnie Cleo, 702 $aNold$b Carl, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822843403321 996 $aPrison blossoms$93913568 997 $aUNINA