Insurgent Mexico
...Villa was an outlaw for twenty-two years. When he was only a boy of sixteen,... he killed a government official... that in itself would not have outlawed him long in Mexico, where human life is cheap; but once a refugee he committed the unpardonable crime of stealing cattle from the rich hacendados. And from that time to the outbreak of the Madero revolution, the Mexican government had a price on his head. -John Reed, Insurgent Mexico, (1914) American journalist John Reed was sent in 1913 to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to cover the Mexican Revolution, an armed struggle from 1910 to 1920 that had a major impact on Mexican culture…
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- ISBN: 978-1-64679-317-4
- EAN: 9781646793174
- Produktnummer: 35494146
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 360 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 481 g
- Gewicht: 481
Über den Autor
JOHN REED (1887-1920), US journalist and activist, became best known for his writing about the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World. Other books by Reed are: The War in Eastern Europe and Insurgent Mexico. He was a graduate of Harvard, wrote for a socialist newspaper The Masses, and helped found the US Communist Party. Reed died in Moscow, where he received a hero's funeral.
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