Complete
Collection of the Incendiary San Francisco Bi-Monthly Anarchist Newspaper from
1916-1917...
DETAILS
"The
pages of The Blast seem to smell of black powder, or better, seem to have blown
out of the eye of a social hurricane. A sense of absolute emergency pervades
almost every column." —Richard Drinnon
After serving
as editor for Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Alexander Berkman moved to San
Francisco and started his own newspaper. This historical facsimile reprint of
the complete 29 issues in their entirety (typos, ads, and all!) features
articles, letters, news, and editorials by Berkman and his revolutionarily-minded
contemporaries. Topics include the political trial of labor activists
Mooney-Billings, a profile of Pancho Villa, the imprisonment of the Magon
brothers, the arrests of Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger for birth control
agitation, and anti-conscription actions. Complete with the original powerful
political artwork and photos, this new edition includes an introduction by Emma
Goldman Papers archivist Barry Pateman, who provides a lengthy contextual
essay, explaining Berkman's life at the time, the social and political
situation, and his ever-torturous relationship with Emma Goldman.
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