An authorised facsimile reprint of a 1974 PhD thesis submitted to New York University. Unpaginated but circa 250pp, one full page illustration at rear. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Cloth a little worn, gently rounded on corners and spine ends. An ex university library copy with library markings on front endpapers and stamp on reverse of title page (no other library markings). The credits page, preceding the title page, has a slightly strained gutter, with the page loosening from binding for about an inch, otherwise internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A thesis concerning the life and times of Benjamin Ricketson Tucker, born in Massachusetts in 1854 and died in Monaco in 1939. Tucker edited the longest0lived newspaper in the English language advocating individual anarchism, Liberty, an occupation that led him into political association with many of the leading figures of American political and social reform. A consistent anarchist, he also became an advocate of the new poetry and drama, symbolised by his defence of Walt Whitman and by his sparking the work of Eugene O'Neill, among others. A life-long advocate of peaceful change, unless force was first used against anarchists. He produced three journals, opening their columns to a diversity of opinion and consistent fought for individual anarchism and the right of voluntary association against state compulsions.
