Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
Keith Skipper
Keith used to love 60s US detective show 77 Sunset Strip
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With another birthday in the bag, a sedate affair befitting lockdown rules, I feel compelled to show far more flair for offering clues than solving them.
Brighter readers who know Sherlock Holmes is not a retirement block for celebrated crime-solvers in darkest Norfolk could well work out my new age from a sudden obsession with old radio and television programmes.
My latest milestone prompted a bit more than my usual admission in biblical parlance to reaching three score and several. It offered a never-to-be-repeated excuse for recalling the glories of 77 Sunset Strip.