A vibrant, deeply human portrait of a woman dedicated to fierce
protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals, by
the celebrated author Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical
who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first
business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end,
was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development
of the inner self. The right to stay alive in one's senses, to
enjoy freedom of thought and speech, to reject the arbitrary use of
power-these were key demands in the many public protest movements
she helped mount. Anarchist par excellence, Goldman is one of the
memorable political figures of our time, not because of her gift
for theory or analysis or even strategy, but because some
extraordinary force of life in her burned, without rest or respite,
on behalf of human integrity-and she was able to make the thousands
of people who, for decades on end, flocked to her lectures, feel
intimately connected to the pain inherent in the abuse of that
integrity. To hear Emma describe, in language as magnetic as it was
illuminating, what the boot felt like on the neck, was to
experience the mythic quality of organized oppression. As the women
and men in her audience listened to her, the homeliness of their
own small lives became invested with a sense of drama that acted as
a catalyst for the wild, vagrant hope that things need not always
be as they were. All you had to do, she promised, was resist. In
time, she herself would become a world-famous symbol for the spirit
of resistance to the power of institutional authority over the lone
individual. In Emma Goldman, Vivian Gornick draws a surpassingly
intimate and insightful portrait of a woman of heroic proportions
whose performance on the stage of history did what Tolstoy said a
work of art should do: it made people love life more.
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