Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography Of John Reed
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
He was a Harvard-educated poet, war correspondent, and radical agitator who witnessed the birth of Soviet Russia and became the only American buried within the walls of the Kremlin — John Reed's life reads less like history and more like myth. Robert A. Rosenstone's Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed chronicles the extraordinary journey of this restless idealist, from the drawing rooms of Greenwich Village bohemia to the smoke-filled trenches of the Mexican Revolution and the thunderous streets of Petrograd in 1917, capturing every contradictory impulse of a man who burned with equal passion for art, love, and political upheaval. Rosenstone presents a meticulously researched yet vividly human portrait of Reed, weaving together the personal and the political to illuminate how one man's Romantic idealism collided with the brutal realities of 20th-century revolution. The biography interrogates the tension between Reed's privileged origins and his fierce commitment to the working class, between the poet and the propagandist, the lover and the revolutionary. Rich in historical texture and driven by a narrative urgency that mirrors its subject's own feverish energy, this landmark work leaves the reader asking the question that haunted Reed himself: at what cost does a man bet everything on a dream?
Author: Robert A. Rosenstone
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
He was a Harvard-educated poet, war correspondent, and radical agitator who witnessed the birth of Soviet Russia and became the only American buried within the walls of the Kremlin — John Reed's life reads less like history and more like myth. Robert A. Rosenstone's Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed chronicles the extraordinary journey of this restless idealist, from the drawing rooms of Greenwich Village bohemia to the smoke-filled trenches of the Mexican Revolution and the thunderous streets of Petrograd in 1917, capturing every contradictory impulse of a man who burned with equal passion for art, love, and political upheaval. Rosenstone presents a meticulously researched yet vividly human portrait of Reed, weaving together the personal and the political to illuminate how one man's Romantic idealism collided with the brutal realities of 20th-century revolution. The biography interrogates the tension between Reed's privileged origins and his fierce commitment to the working class, between the poet and the propagandist, the lover and the revolutionary. Rich in historical texture and driven by a narrative urgency that mirrors its subject's own feverish energy, this landmark work leaves the reader asking the question that haunted Reed himself: at what cost does a man bet everything on a dream?