Life of an Anarchist The Alexander Berkman Reader. Foreword by Gene Fellner. New foreword by Howard Zinn

Featuring a new introduction by Howard Zinn, this volume contains Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, Berkman's account of his years in prison; The Bolshevik Myth, his eyewitness account of the early days of the Russian Revolution; and The ABC of Anarchism, the classic text on the nature of anarchism in the twentieth century. Also included are a selection of letters between Berkman and his lifelong companion Emma Goldman and a generous sampling from Berkman's other publications.

Synopsis
Alexander Berkman (1870-1936) was one of the prominent writers and activists of the American anarchist milieu in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, perhaps best known for his bungled attempt on the life of Henry Clay Frick, which resulted in a 14 year stint in jail and the Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912). Beginning with excerpts from the