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Lowest White Boy (In Place)

Lowest White Boy (In Place)

by Greg Bottoms (Author), Greg Bottoms (Author)

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    Illustrated 2018

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Synopsis

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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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 168
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 30 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1946684961
ISBN 13: 9781946684967

Media Reviews

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

Author Bio
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.