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A truly wonderful, absorbing, and illuminating look at the life, and work, of Ross Winn...born in 1871...unsung anarchist propagandist, typesetter, and activist, who lived and died in rural poverty. A true work of investigative history, this booklet is as much about the work of uncovering history—far removed from the academy—and what such endeavors tell us, as it is about the life and work of Winn. Half the pamphlet describes the process of "amateur" historical sleuthing that went into discovering his family tree, unmarked grave, early pictures, and some of his printed propaganda. The other half includes reproductions of his writings and some of his correspondence with Emma Goldman—who wrote of him, in Mother Earth, in 1912: "Never has the power of the Ideal been demonstrated with greater force than in the life and work of this man, Ross Winn. For nothing short of a great ideal, a burning, impelling, all-absorbing ideal, could make possible the task that our dead comrade so lovingly performed during a quarter of a century."
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