What is anarchy? In the Gilded Age, the United States felt the convulsions of several radical ideologies, but none as violent and complex as the anarchist movement. Dr. Michael Willrich joins the show to discuss the key personalities and episodes that gave rise to a new approach to criminal justice and immigration law.

Essential Reading:

Michael Willrich, American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (2023).

Recommended Reading:

Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror (2009).

Richard Bach Jensen, The Battle Against Anarchist Terrorism: An International History, 1878-1934 (2014).

James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009).

David M. Rabban, Free Speech in its Forgotten Years (1997).

Kenyon Zimmer, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (2015).

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