“This novel business is an awful business. Why the hell did I ever get mixed up in it?” — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“In preparation for battle, Frick had requested 300 Pinkerton guards be held in readiness. Established in 1850, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency was a private security company rumored to have as many agents as the U.S. Army had soldiers. It… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Goldman laid low until the 1927 executions of anarchists and convicted bank robbers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti stirred her back into action. With… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto a freighter… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“The country, it seemed, was on the verge of a second civil war, this one over industrial slavery. But Frick was a gambler who… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“But except for committed anarchists, the assassination attempt was widely condemned. In fact, it turned the tide of public opinion that, up until this… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“In his years in prison, Berkman had come to believe that bullets directed at their oppressors were insufficient because eliminating what he viewed as… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Lying alone in bed in New York City, an anxious Goldman decided she could get the money Berkman needed to buy a weapon and… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Upset over having deceived her sister, her failure as a prostitute, and the tension in waiting for Berkman to make his move, Goldman walked… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Unlike religions that offered a better life after death, the idealist callings of anarchism espoused making heaven on earth by ridding humankind of the… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“the headline death and disaster atop the latest dispatch from Homestead. “Capital and labor have met once more on a bloody field,” the article… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Berkman and Goldman had met three years earlier, in the dim, smoke-filled dining room of Sachs’ Café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Sachs’ was… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“Asking a question whose echo has been heard each time America went to war since, Goldman said, “How else is the world to take… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
“In the weeks leading up to his arrival by train in Pittsburgh, Alexander Berkman had been obsessed with the escalating drama at Homestead. He… — James McGrath Morris Copy Share Image
