Emma Goldman's reputation during her lifetime was in part created by her incorrectly assumed connection with the assassination of President McKinley, and by a young ambitious J. Edgar Hoover. By 1919, the soon to be deported Goldman was known as 'the most dangerous woman in America'. After her death in 1940 it has been her biographers who have continued expanding Goldman's reputation, seeing her as 'heroic' and 'iconic', and some have even gone so far as to describe her as a 'cult figure'.

All modern work on Goldman has included major references to her autobiography, Living My Life, this book re-examines the creation of this autobiography, first practically noting just how many other people were involved in creating this project: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie provided the blue print for the beginning of Goldman's story; Demi Coleman, as Goldman' secretary was a major part of the daily writing process, while Alexander Berkman was not just influential as an editor of her work, he was also instrumental in insuring his anarchist agenda was followed. These people are vital as Goldman's work needs to be seen not as an autobiography, and objective historical tool, but instead as a much influenced and highly censored source.

To achieve a closer look at the many created versions of Goldman, this book uses visual and written sources to identify how Goldman was shown to the American public and to see literally how these images softened and changed over the years.

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Over the last 25 years, the dark, engrossing graphic novel series XIII has attracted a cult following in French-speaking countries and beyond, with readers eagerly awaiting every one of the 19th instalments published so far.

Launched in 1984 by two Belgian authors, Jean Van Hamme and William Vance, XIII has been turned into a video game by Ubisoft as well as a TV mini-series starring Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer, which premiered on France's Canal+ in October 2008 and on NBC in the US in February 2009.

Such is the popularity of the graphic novel that a gallery of its characters drawn by Vance was used to illustrate special-edition XIII scratch card tickets in France since 2000.

The central character in XIII is an amnesiac on the run, caught in the crossfire as he tries to understand his true identity while attempting to make sense of various conspiracies swirling around him. With many twists and turns, it's a compulsive read for teenagers and adults alike and has already been translated into several languages.

Initially serialised in Spirou magazine in 1984, XIII was created by Jean Van Hamme, the author behind Thorgal and Largo Winch — the latter in comic and book form as well as on the big screen, and William Vance, illustrator of the bestsellers Howard Flynn, Bruce Hawker, Bruno Brazil, and Bob Morane and Marshall Blueberry.

From May 2010 to May 2013, Cinebook will publish XIII in English at the rate of one new volume every two months. Only three episodes of the cult Franco-Belgian bande dessinée originally saw the light of day in English in the late 1980s, so this new Cinebook series will enable fans new and old to discover and rediscover this mystery.

Suitable for: 15+ years

XIII instalments to be published in 2010:
XIII 1: The Day of the Black Sun, 9781849180399, $15.95
XIII 2: Where the Indian Walks, 9781849180405, $15.95
XIII 3: All the Tears of Hell, 9781849180511, $15.95
XIII 4: Spads, 9781849180580, $15.95