James McGrath Morris
ASIN: B00K5SO2YM
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 51
Selected by Amazon.com as one the TWENTY BEST KINDLE SINGLES OF 2014The heart-pounding true story of the plot to kill the most powerful man in America. In 1892, America was on the verge of another civil war, this one over industrial slavery. It was the era of robber barons, and none was more reviled for his harsh treatment of workers than industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The deadly Homestead Steel Strike that summer had left Frick with blood on his hands, and two young, impassioned radicals thought he should pay for his crimes. Answering the utopian call of a world without government, Alexander Berkman and his lover, Emma Goldman, set out for revenge in the name of the proletariat. Theirs is the story of revolution by murder. A “dramatic, fast-moving new tale of violence and political activism,” write Douglas Perry in a review posted on Oregonlive.com. “’Revolution By Murder’ is a Kindle ...