Remembering Red Emma: Friday February 15, 1-2 p.m.




WYPR: Midday with Dan Rodricks Podcast show

Summary: Karen Avrich tells about the life of activist and feminist Emma Goldman and her lover, Alexander Berkman, the anarchist Sasha said to have carried out the first terrorist act in the U.S. when he tried to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892. Avrich finished Sasha and Emma, the book her late father, scholar Paul Avrich, started. Original air date 01/17/13