The fascinating story of a long-forgotten "war on terror" that has much in common with our ownOn a February evening in 1894, a young radical intell...
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Oct 30, 2010
Lauren
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It is a minor thing, but I need to take issue with the subtitle--the bombing that is at the center of the book did not "ignite" the age of modern terror-the author himself discusses previous anarchist bombings which inspired Emile Henry's attack on the Cafe Terminus. What stood out about the Henry bombing was the bomber himself--a highly intelligent, educated, well-liked and bourgeois young man--not the typical anarchist.
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Jul 27, 2011
As pointed out in yesterday's book on Ellis Island, asking emigrants point blank if they were anarchists didn't yield very good return, but this book underscores why governments kept trying. John Merriman, a master of 19th century France, reconstructs the context of the movement, including gems like the probability that most anarchist cells were inadvertently funded by agent provocateurs, the prevalence of food nicknames (Biscuit, Sauerkraut, Macaroni) and the sheer number of sad pickup lines i
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Jan 21, 2012
Jonfaith
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An interesting survey which benefits from detailed pockets within the narrative that aren't exactly crucial to the instance of one Emile henry, anarchist, but are valuable in a broader cultural and historical context.
Jun 23, 2010
The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror by John Merriman (2009)
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