At the beginning of the last century, Emma Goldman's popularity rivaled that of a modern rock star. She drew thousands to rallies, went on lecture tours across America and Europe, participated in strikes, and was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned. Her fiery speeches about patriotism, the state, political prisoners, and women's emancipation were enthusiastically received by the public and regularly disrupted by the police. This woman put all the radical ideas into practice a hundred years before they were even conceived in your head, and she knew everyone worth knowing at the time.
