ABSTRACT
Alexander Berkman (1870–1936), who immigrated from Russia as a youth, was one of the most outstanding anarchists in the United States during the movement’s heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He served fourteen years in prison for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the coal and steel baron, Henry Clay Frick, in revenge for the killing of workers by Pinkerton guards during the Homestead Strike, in 1892. Berkman and Emma Goldman (see pp. 34–49) were lifelong friends and co-workers.
