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Book Description: In 1892, Alexander Berkman, Russian migr, anarchist, and lover of Emma Goldman, attempted--unsuccessfully--to assassinate ind ustrialist Henry Clay Frick. The act was meant both as retribution for the massacre of workers in the Homestead strike and as an incitement to revolution. Captured and sentenced to serve a prison term of twenty-two years, Berkman struggled to make sens e of the shadowy and brutalized world of the prison-one that hardly conformed to rev olutionary expectation. In a series of vivid chapters Berkman introduce s us to the world of the penitentiary--to the yegg man, the pickpocket, the screw, a nd the stooge, to the senile warden and his brutal guards--and to its perverse routi nes, its summary detentions and arbitrary deprivations, its setups, forced labor, co rruption, and daily violence. At the same time Berkman details with great sensitivit y the language of conspiracy and subterfuge, and the surprising confidences and furt ive intimacies by which he and his fellow inmates sought to endure their capt ivity. And in the end, he shows that the prison, seemingly cut off from the world at large, is in fact its terrible and truthful mirror.

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