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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement. By Carlotta R. Anderson. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998. 324 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8143-2707-9.)

One approaches a biography by a granddaughter with doubts about her capacity both to be critical and evenhanded and to escape the narrow framework of personal and family activities to engage a wider world of events, especially when the biographer is neither an established author nor a professional historian. But Carlotta R. Anderson soon puts these doubts to rest. The grandfather in this case is Joseph A. Labadie, prominent American anarchist and labor organizer, whose legacy, the Labadie collection at the University of Michigan, is a major source of primary material on protest and radical organizations and movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (The book contains an afterword about the collection by its curator.) . . .

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