Abstract
The late historian Paul Avrich asked his daughter Karen to complete his project on the lifelong love and friendship between Emma Goldman and Alexander (Sasha) Berkman, who served 14 years in a Pennsylvania prison for his attempt in 1892 to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, the ruthless industrialist and art collector. THE AUTHORS Historian Paul Avrich, who spent most of his career at Queens College, City University of New York, "was a kind and brilliant man and a formidable scholar, with the ear of a linguist, the mind of a detective and the soul of a philosopher.