John Reed and the Writing of RevolutionOhio University Press, 2002 - 294 strani John Reed (1887-1920) is best known as the author of Ten Days That Shook the World and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. Still, Reed remains a writer almost systematically ignored by the literary critical establishment, even if alternately vilified and lionized by historians and by films like Warren Beatty's Reds. John Reed and the Writing of Revolution examines Reed's writing from a different critical perspective—one informed by a theoretical and practical understanding of literary nonfiction. In both politics and writing, John Reed defied fashion. In his short career, Reed transcended the traditional creative arts of fiction, poetry, and drama in favor of deeply researched histories composed with the cadence of fiction and the power of fact. Reed thereby alienated literary critics who had idealized timeless artistry against the rough-and-tumble world of historical details and political implications. Working from a close investigation of rare articles, manuscripts, and the Reed papers at Harvard as well as from Reed's published work, Daniel W. Lehman offers the first detailed literary study of the man who followed Pancho Villa into battle; wrote literary profiles of such characters as Henry Ford, William Jennings Bryan, and Billy Sunday; explicated the Byzantine factionalism of Eastern Europe; and witnessed the storming of the Winter Palace and the birth of Soviet Russia. |
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Introduction A slice of intensified history | 1 |
John Reed as Literary Journalist | 23 |
Fact and Fiction in John Reeds Tales | 64 |
An Insurgent in Mexico | 94 |
Reed against the Great War The Politics of Marketplace Journalism | 129 |
Ten Days That Shook the World The Rising Tide of Revolution | 172 |
Reeds Literary Legacy | 205 |
Appendix | 219 |
Notes | 263 |
Works Cited | 277 |
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