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Ben Reitman. Ben Lewis Reitman M.D. (1879–1943) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor ("the hobo doctor"). He is best remembered today as one of radical Emma Goldman 's lovers. Martin Scorsese 's 1972 feature film Boxcar Bertha is based on one of Reitman's books.
At the age of 28, Reitman began a lifelong crusade to rescue thousands of homeless people from exploitation and personal anguish. It was a year of new beginnings — he would meet Emma Goldman in...
Women of Valor. Emma Goldman - Love & Sexuality - Ben Reitman. Ben Reitman was a colorful figure. After tramping through Asia and Europe and around America several times as a youth, he returned to his hometown of Chicago, where a job as a janitor in a laboratory led him into medical studies.
1 de mai. de 1998 · Dr Ben Reitman was a social reformer, hobo, doctor, lover of Emma Goldman and anarchist activist in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Tim Cresswell
- 1998
16 de mai. de 2019 · A Chicago doctor named Ben Reitman described attending a 1907 meeting in St. Louis chaired by Wilson where about 300 hobos discussed the laws. The next year, Reitman became the director of the newly-formed Hobo College in a makeshift Chicago neighborhood known as Hobohemia.
Books. The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician. Roger A. Bruns. University of Illinois Press, 2001 -...
23 de mar. de 2001 · Ben Reitman was a hobo, medical doctor, anarchist, and social reformer of the early 20th century. This book reveals his world, a world that most history books tend to ignore- the world of the hobos and political radicals (they were often one and the same) of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Roger A. Bruns
