American Anarchy

{{Short description|2023 book by Michael Willrich}}

{{about|the 2023 book|the 2016 documentary film|American Anarchist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}

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| name = American Anarchy

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| author = Michael Willrich

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| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Basic Books

| pub_date = 31 October 2023

| pages = 480

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| isbn = 9781541697379

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American Anarchy is a 2023 book by historian Michael Willrich. The book describes the early 20th-century American anarchist movement, with a focus on the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.{{cite journal |last1=Fields |first1=Kollin E. |title=Law, Liberty, and Anarchism in the Progressive Era - Michael Willrich. American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.|journal=The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era |date=October 2023 |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=533–535 |doi=10.1017/S1537781423000257|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era/article/law-liberty-and-anarchism-in-the-progressive-era-michael-willrich-american-anarchy-the-epic-struggle-between-immigrant-radicals-and-the-us-government-at-the-dawn-of-the-twentieth-century-new-york-basic-books-2023-480-pp-3200-hardcover-isbn-9781541697379/2DF2D2EFCC2639A89D377DBB3911ED17|access-date=11 May 2025|url-access=subscription }}{{cite journal |last1=Antliff |first1=Allan |title=Review: Michael Willrich, American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the U.S. Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. |journal=Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies |date=14 May 2024 |volume=2024 |issue=1 |pages=219–228 |url=https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/adcs/article/view/21935 |access-date=11 May 2025 |language=en |issn=1923-5615}}{{cite news |last1=Tanenhaus |first1=Sam |title=How Anarchists Helped Build Up Free Speech |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/books/review/how-anarchists-helped-build-up-free-speech.html |access-date=11 May 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=29 March 2025}} The book was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for History.{{cite web |title=The 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/michael-willrich |website=Pulitzer Prize |access-date=11 May 2025}}