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Home > History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas > More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy

More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy


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In 1914 the United States was on the verge of revolution: industrial depression in the east, striking coal miners in Colorado, and increasingly tense relations with Mexico. In New York, the trouble began in January when a crushing winter caused homeless shelters to overflow. By April, anarchists paraded past industrialists’ mansions, and tens of thousands filled Union Square demanding “Bread or Revolution.” Then, on July 4, a detonation destroyed a Harlem tenement in the largest explosion the city had ever seen. Among the dead were three bomb-makers—incited by anarchist Alexander Berkman—who were preparing to dynamite the estate of John D. Rockefeller Jr., widely vilified for a massacre of his company’s striking workers that spring.

More Powerful Than Dynamite charts how anarchist anger, progressive idealism, and plutocratic influence converged in that July explosion. Its cast includes celebrated figures such as Emma Goldman, Upton Sinclair, and Andrew Carnegie and the fascinating but heretofore little known, including Frank Tannenbaum, a teenager who insisted churches provide shelter for the homeless; police inspector Max Schmittberger, too honest for his department and too crooked for everyone else; and Becky Edelsohn, a young anarchist known for her red tights and for spitting in millionaires’ faces. Historian and journalist Thai Jones creates a fascinating portrait of a city on the edge of chaos coming to terms with modernity.



About the Author :
Thai Jones is author of A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience. Formerly a reporter for Newsday, he is a graduate of Vassar College and the Columbia School of Journalism, and has earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History at Columbia University.

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An engrossing account of the events of 1914. More Powerful Than Dynamite read[s] like the best of novels. Jones’ retelling of the year is filled with action, subterfuge and an unbelievable number of textured plotlines…. [He] captures the actors and events with a deftness and polish rarely seen in historical nonfiction. [A] fascinating new book…. Though Jones is chiefly concerned with the anarchist movement and other political events of 1914, his book is also packed with fascinating asides about various social and cultural goings-on in early 20th-century New York City. Thai Jones peels back the layers with a delicious new history....The story is told not so much as an analysis from above or with the 20/20 hindsight of history, but rather as a propulsive narrative of the positionings and repositionings of various social forces as they roiled along through the year.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781620405185
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 416
  • Weight: 383 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1620405180
  • Publisher Date: 14 Aug 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy
  • Width: 140 mm


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