...Convicted in 1917 of advocating draft resistance, Hennacy was sent to the Atlanta Penitentiary. There he met his hero, the anarchist Alexander Berkman, whose fortitude he modeled to survive nine months in solitary for leading a food strike. He survived a predatory cellmate, depression, thoughts...

...This chapter is a prison memoir detailing the attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company, to avenge the deaths of seven steel workers killed by Frick's detectives during the great Homestead Strike. The culprit, Alexander Berkman, was a prominent member...