""Do Not Misunderstand Me"" The Collected Radical Addresses to the Unity Congregation

"""Robert Helms' invaluable compilation gives voice to a late 19th-century radical in the secular Free Thought movement who promoted anarchism in his widely read journal, Twentieth Century, and, for a time, upended the sensibilities of the establishment in radical addresses that scandalized many and fired up many more."" Allan Antliff, author of Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall ""This remarkable collection is both a labor of love and a much-needed contribution to the resurgence of forgotten American radical voices. Helms has masterfully curated a treasure trove of lectures by Hugh Pentecost, a once-overlooked figure in Freethought and radicalism. In an era dominated by piety and religious conformity, Pentecost's words serve as a powerful reminder that America has always harbored a deep affinity for unbelief, tolerance, and freethought-forces far stronger than the dullness of dogma or the allure of authority."" Tom Goyens, author of Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914 (2007), and editor of Radical Gotham (2017) ""A treasure-trove of insightful commentaries that remain as relevant today as they were in Gilded Age America. The former Baptist minister Pentecost welded his uncompromising rationalism into an original, revolutionary, anti-capitalist, anarchistic, and antiracist 'gospel of social revolution' that continues to resonate in the twenty-first century."" Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America"