About the Author

Paul Avrich is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate School, the City University of New York. His books include Sacco and Vanzetti, Anarchist Portraits, and The Haymarket Tragedy, all published by Princeton University Press.

Reviews

"Anarchist Voices draws on interviews with native and foreign-born anarchists that Avrich has been conducting over the past 30 years. . . . Avrich's absorbing collection makes a vital contribution to the history of the American left."
*Library Journal*

"The 180 interviewees in this oral history represent diverse political tendencies--individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. What unites them is an optimistic faith that people will live in harmony once the impositions of government disappear. . . . [Paul] Avrich profiles a movement that continues to exercise an appeal with its calls for self-determination, direct grass-roots action and voluntary cooperation."
*Publishers Weekly*

"Paul Avrich's Anarchist Voices . . . achieves some wonderful results."
*The Nation*

"This gracefully edited study should interest all students of American radicalism."
*Choice*

"The voices in Avrich's book help us to appreciate the central point about anarchism--that it is a cry for social justice."---Robert D'Attilio, Boston Book Review