John Reed
Description
American journalist, poet, and communist activist
Books
Collected Poems
The Collected Works of John Reed
Jack Reed was a reporter, adventurer, bohemian. And a quintessential New American. Never a conformist, he was willing to take the world as it came to him, gave due consideration to all comers, and was the very image of what 1910 thought of as The Modern Man. His exploits were conducted with minimal preparation but astounding amounts of nerve and abandon, pure willpower. In his Collected Works we have three non-fiction books: Reed's first journey into revolution and survival below the Rio Grande, called "Insurgent Mexico" … the picaresque adventures in the Balkans he called "The War In Eastern Europe" .. and the major opus, "Ten Days That Shook The World", which chronicles his extended involvement with the 1917 revolution in Russia.
The Education of John Reed
Selections from Reed's lively, passionate writing in the decade 1910 to his untimely death in 1920. Partisan of workers and peasants, a fighter for fundamental change in the social order. Introduction by John Stuart. A fine survey of John Reed's life and work.
Ten Days That Shook the World
Ten Days That Shook the World (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed presented a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Reed followed many of the most prominent Bolsheviks closely during his time in Russia. (Source: [Wikipedia](
Insurgent Mexico
American journalist John 'Jack' Reed writes, on the scene, describing the Mexican Revolution of 1914. He gives an excellent realistic account of the Mexican Indians & peons that have suffered under a brutal dictatorship. He writes about the time he spent in Northern Mexico with Pancho Villa & the war in the desert. It was hard for him as a Gringo as most Americans had only gone to Mexico to plunder the environment. Read "The White Rose' by Bruno Traven & his other 'jungle' series books about the exploitation of Indian Mexican's. Many would say that Jack Reed took over from Jack London in his war reporting, since Jack had just died in 1914. Jack Reed's other famous book "Ten Days That Shook The World" is about the Red October (Boleshvik) Russian Revolution--the movie "Reds" by Warren Beaty is Jack Reed's story.