Description: Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism--the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick.
Brief description: Miriam Brody is an independent scholar.
Review Quotes: Prison Blossoms are a distant cousin of Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. This book reminds us how much we learn about the self-absorbed center of society from those who are caged in at its margin. A gem of a book.--Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, author of Faithful and Fearless