Fearless Women, Powerful Stories: Author Deborah Heiligman
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Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America
A Love Story
Emma Goldman made trouble her whole life. Sometimes by accident. Most often on purpose. She loved America's democratic ideals, but she refused to stay quiet when those ideals failed the people who needed them most.
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America
Born in Lithuania in 1869, Emma Goldman grew up knowing what it meant to resist expectations. Her father wanted a dutiful son, not a headstrong daughter. Emma had other plans.
When she arrived in America as a young woman, she was inspired by its promises of democracy and freedom, but appalled by the hypocrisy she saw around her. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness seemed to belong only to those at the top.
So Emma spoke up. Soon she was delivering fiery speeches about workers' rights, feminism, inequality, and capitalism, challenging audiences to imagine a freer and more just society.
Loudmouth is both the story of Emma's complicated love affair with America and the story of the romances, convictions, contradictions, and radical ideas that shaped her remarkable life.
Freedom. Rebellion. Love.
Emma Goldman vs. America — and Love
Emma believed marriage could be disempowering to women and chose instead to live according to her principles of free love.
Her political life and her romantic life were deeply intertwined, and Loudmouth explores both: the men she loved, the movements she joined, and the country she challenged because she believed it could live up to its own ideals.
Her critics called her a troublemaker and a "loudmouth." But sometimes you need to be loud for your voice to be heard.
A National Jewish Book Awards Finalist
Deborah Heiligman
Deborah Heiligman is the author of 31 books for children and teens. Her acclaimed nonfiction work has earned some of the highest honors in children's and young adult literature.
Her book Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers received six starred reviews and won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction.
Her other books include The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős and Snow Dog, Go Dog.
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith was a National Book Award finalist, a Printz Honor book, the winner of the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Her YA novel Intentions, an exploration of betrayal, love, faith, and the complicated transition from childhood to adulthood, received the Sydney Taylor Award for Teen Readers.
Award-Winning Books for Young Readers
for Vincent and Theo
for Charles and Emma
for Intentions
A bold portrait of a woman who challenged convention, confronted power, and refused to lower her voice.
