Emma

"What can I say that will convey the love, respect, and admiration I feel for this people-loving troublemaker who stood with us and suffered with us? Howard Zinn was the best teacher I ever had, and the funniest."--Alice Walker"Howard Zinn is, quite simply, a national treasure. He never stops inventing new ways to educate ourselves."--Elizabeth MartínezIn this play, renowned historian and playwright Howard Zinn dramatises the life of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist, and free-spirited thinker who was exiled from the United States. With his wit and unique ability to illuminate history, Zinn reveals the life of this remarkable woman. whose outspoken views, including her opposition to World War I, raised her to such prominence.As Zinn writes in his Introduction, Emma Goldman "seemed to be tireless as she traveled the country, lecturing to large audiences everywhere, on birth control ('A woman should decide for herself'), on the falsity of marriage as an institution ('Marriage has nothing to do with love'), on patriotism ('the last refuge of a scoundrel') on free love ('What is love if not free?'), and also on drama, including Shaw, Ibsen, and Strindberg."This book will be of immense interest to feminists, anarchists, American historians, and people interested in the long history of resistance and protest in the United States.