About this title: American journalist John 'Jack' Reed writes, on the scene, describing the Mexican Revolution of 1914. He gives an excellent and realistic account of the Mexican Indians and peons that have suffered under a brutal dictatorship. He writes about the time he spent in Northern Mexico with Pancho Villa and the war in the desert. It was hard for him as a Gringo as most Americans had only gone to Mexico to pluner the enviornment. Read "The White Rose' by Bruno Traven and his other 'jungle' series books about the exploitation of Indian Mexican's. Many would say that Jack Reed took over from Jack ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: International publishers Co
Date Published: 1988-12
ISBN-13:9780717803774ISBN:0717803775
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket As Issued. Paperback, No Markings, Binding square and tight, Light creases to cover with couple scrapes on edges, Laminate separating from cover, Pages clean and bright, Domestic Tracking. read more
Description: Ed., intro. & notes by Albert L. Michaels & James W. Wilkie. 1st. Clarion trade paperbk. c.1969, 252pp, creased sp & front cover, contents G $ read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781459084216ISBN:1459084217
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00222 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Description: 1983, 1st Penguin Books edition, very good condition, stiff pictorial paperback, published by published by Penguin Books, 256 pages. Originally published in 1914 this is a reprint of John Reed's reportage of his days with the Mexican guerrillas under Pancho Villa. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Ellis
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781934568316ISBN:1934568317
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Unknown
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781459084216ISBN:1459084217
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Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 8.86 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00336 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781437248869ISBN:1437248861
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00336 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton & Company, Bx398
Date Published: 1914
Description: Good+ Hardcover. 12mo. D. Appleton & Company. 1914. 325 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Previous owner's signature on the FFEP. Bookstore label on the FFEP. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Top of the spine chipped. Spine lightly faded and sunned. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Photos sent upon request. Bx398; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 325 pages. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company, New York
Date Published: 1914
Description: First edition. A small owner's name on the front fly, slight soiling to the spine-ends, near fine in good plus photographic dustwrapper with several modest chips, and splash marks on the spine. Reed's first book by a major publisher, and his first hardcover, compiled from his dispatches while traveling with Pancho Villa's army for four months. In much the same way that Reed's later Ten Days That Shook the World provided one of the definitive eyewitness accounts of the Bolshevik Revolution, this ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: International Publishers
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780717800995ISBN:0717800997
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"John Reed went to the North of Mexico in 1913 to cover the Mexican Revolution. He was successful in getting first-hand information and was able to interview people who took part directly in the movement. Two of those protagonists were Villa and Carranza, and Reed questioned them about their beliefs and thoughts on the steps that were being taken to overthrow the legacy of Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship.
Going to where the conflict was at its peak, the journalist joined the people who were fighting and was able to get their opinions and feelings on what was happening. But more than an interpretation of the revolution and its causes, what we learn from this book is the ups and downs of a group of people from the Northern Mexico, who decided to defy a dictatorship, using violence and by wresting control of towns and cities from government authorities.
And following them we will learn about the culture, the role of women in the insurrection, the lack of land as one of the main causes of the movement... and behind it all, the desert, like a cold spectator of that human struggle."
"A superb read on the politics, economics and envirionmental disasters of US intervension in Mexico. A solid and balanced read with seldom seen issues and facts."
"My great great grandfather wrote this book. He was a famous war journalist. This one is about time he spent in Mexico with Pancho Villa and his gang, during the revoultion in the early 1900s. The other well-known book of his is "Ten Days that Shook the World," --about the russian revolution.He was an influence on Hemingway and others as far as journalism and war writing goes."
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