EAN: | 1230000274215 |
Publisher: | ChristieBooks |
Published: | 15 October, 2014 |
Format: | eBook |
As a young student in Russia, Alexander Berkman claims to have heard the bomb explode which killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881. He emigrated to America and, inspired by the Haymarket martyrs, became active in Jewish anarchist circles. When Henry Clay Frick of Carnegie Steel sent in armed Pinkertons who killed strikers at Homestead Steel, Berkman traveled to Pittsburg and shot Frick in an assassination attempt of his own, hoping to inspire a workers' revolt. He spent 14 years in prison, then rejoin
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