Insurgent Mexico
by John Reed
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In 1913, at the height of the Mexican Revolution, magazine correspondent John Reed headed South to cover the story of the year. His travels with a group of rebels that included the legendary Pancho Villa earned him everlasting fame as a reporter and left behind a series of unmatched portraits of a people, a place and a time.Tags
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leigonj If you are generally interested in revolution/ civil war Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in Spain (in some ways similar, in others quite different to Reed's book) is well worth reading.
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John Reed was a survivor of the great days of muck-raking journalism, when the Media was not yet under the control of the big businesses, as it is today. (Media Elites! Baah!) His interest in a good story drew him into the Mexican Revolution that spawned Pancho Villa and put Francesco Madera in power in Mexico City, creating the "Permanent Revolution Party" that governed Mexico until the 1990's. This slim volume set the cliché vision of the Latin-American Revolution firmly into the American mind. It is also great fun to read!
very interesting.
John Reed's excellent reporting from the Mexican Revolution.
Es un conjunto de imágenes de la revolución mexicana escritas por un corresponsal de guerra.
May 6, 2012Spanish
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Oct 24, 2020Catalan
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John Reed (1887-1920) was a journalist, activist, poet, and author. In addition to chronicling the Russian Revolution, he reported on US labor strikes, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and was a founder of and international delegate for the Communist Labor Party. He is buried at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow.
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- Canonical title
- Insurgent Mexico
- Original title
- Insurgent Mexico
- Alternate titles
- Storm Over Mexico
- Original publication date
- 1914 (1e édition originale américaine) (1e édition originale américaine); 1975 (1e traduction et édition française, Voix, Maspéro) (1e traduction et édition française, Voix, Maspéro); 1996 (Nouvelle édition française augmentée d'une préface d'Alvaro Mutis, Seuil) (Nouvelle édition française augmentée d'une préface d'Alvaro Mutis, Seuil)
- People/Characters
- John Reed; Pancho Villa; Venustiano Carranza
- Important places
- Las Nieves, Durango, Mexico; La Cadena, Durango, Mexico; Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mexico; Yermo, Durango, Mexico; Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico; Mexico
- Important events
- Mexican Revolution
- Related movies
- Reed, México insurgente (1973 | IMDb); Mexico In Flames (1982 | IMDb)
- First words
- Mercado's Federal army, after its dramatic and terrible retreat four hundred miles across the desert when Chihuahua was abandonded, lay three months at Ojinaga on the Rio Grande.
- Disambiguation notice*
- Date de première publication
1914 (1e édition originale américaine)
1975 (1e traduction et édition française, Voix, Maspéro)
1996 (Nouvelle édition française augmentée d'une préface d'Alvaro Mutis, Seuil)
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 972.08 — History & geography History of North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Later history (1867-)
- LCC
- F1234 .R32 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America Latin America. Spanish America Mexico
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