ALL-AMERICAN ANARCHIST

Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement

Carlotta R. Anderson

A biography of Detroit’s controversial individualist anarchist and labor leader at the height of urban industrialization

328 pages, 30 illustrations

$34.95 cloth

Publication date: June, 1998

“A readable and engaging biography;  Labadie’s important, if idiosyncratic, career spans several streams in the history of American radicalism from the beginning of American socialism, through the Knights of Labor, to anarchist libertarianism”--Richard Oestreicher, University of Pittsburgh

“…Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it captures not only [Labadie’s] colorful personality but also the flavor of the times in which he lived.  By doing so it offers a compelling narrative that deserves the widest audience.”—Paul Avrich, Queens College, City University of New York

“…does justice to one of the most remarkable yet neglected figures in late nineteenth-century U.S. history…Labadie’s life, as portrayed by Anderson, encapsulated the history of social protest and radicalism as well as the tension between communitarianism and individualism in American culture and society.”—Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY-Binghamton

“…Anderson skillfully paints Labadie as a man of passionate commitments and wide-ranging interests in the labor movement.  Examining the ups and downs of his relationship with more famous figures such as Terence Powderly, Samuel Gompers, the Haymarket anarchists, Benjamin Tucker, Emma Goldman, and Eugene Debs reveals much about the times of Joseph Labadie, but the book is especially compelling in painting Labadie as an individual…”—Frank Brooks, Roosevelt University

Carlotta Anderson presents candidly a human being, romantically idealistic, whose passionate convictions carried him beyond conventional social limits and involved him in many controversies…his hyperboles and misjudgements are noted with Anderson’s objective eye and a relish of humor.”—Edward C. Weber, University of Michigan Library

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