Has anyone yet read Goddess of Anarchy: the Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones? I haven't seen any discussion of it on this site, which is a bit strange considering libcom.org hosts a few of the pieces that have been used to contest various parts of her background and history. I haven't yet read it but know that it advances a few somewhat controversial claims, some of which I had never heard before.
Such as
1) She denied or downplayed her African heritage for unknown reasons.
2) She had little to say about the plight of blacks in the United States, focusing most of her efforts on Northern white immigrant factory workers.
3) She had her son committed to an asylum because he wanted to enlist in the military during WW1. She subsequently never visited him and he died young in an institution.
4) She often had words and polemics with people like Emma Goldman in public over 'free love', but privately practiced it.
I'm not sure what it has to say about her later years and her relation to the Communist Party, which has been a point of disagreement between anarchists and socialists for years.
Anyway, just wondering if anyone here has read it and had any thoughts about it, especially the conclusions the author draws from the sources she cites.
Jacobin review: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/lucy-parsons-jacqueline-jones-goddess-anarchy-interview
Radio Program with author: https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-february-13-2018/
New York TImes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/books/tell-us-5-things-about-your-book-goddess-of-anarchy.html
Chicago Tribune review: http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-books-lucy-parsons-goddess-of-anarchy-jacqueline-jones-20171108-story.html
I've definitely seen this before, except the reasons are usually clearly given alongside it:
http://lucyparsons.org/biography-iww.php