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 ...

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 ...

August 15: Goldman arrives in new York City. She meets a man who will become her lifelong friend, Alexander Berkman, at Sachs' Café. Soon afterward she meets a prominent anarchist who will become ...

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 ...

Goldman, however, confessed in her autobiography she conspired with her lover, Alexander Berkman, in planning the failed assassination attempt on steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in response to the ...