Rebel in Paradise Author:Richard Drinnon Emma Goldman: Teddy Roosevelt branded her a "madwoman," "a mental as well as a moral pervert"... J. Edgar Hoover considered her a threat to national security, and succeeded in deporting her in 1919... To millions of Americans in the early part of this [20th] century Emma Goldman was a woman who... attempted to assassinate one... more » of the most powerful men in America, and fought violently for the rights of women, workers and the mass of humanity against authority, social convention and economic coercion."« less