Insurgent Mexico

<p>Toward the end of 1913 John Reed was sent to cover the revolution in Mexico by <em>Metropolitan</em> a widely read magazine whose writers included the leading muckrakers and reformers of the time. He was also commissioned as a correspondent by the <em>New York World</em>. Then twenty-six years of age Reed had already won some fame as a journalist having earlier that year reported the fierce silk workers strike in Paterson New Jersey led by the I.W.W.  </p><p>Reed's articles from Mexico established him among the top journalists of his day. Insurgent Mexico his first published book included episodes which first had appeared in the <em>Metropolitan</em>. Later in a brief autobiographical essay he referred to his days in Mexico as the most satisfactory period of my life.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(14 12 9 1)>The preface to this </span><span style=color: rgba(31 27 22 1)>edition </span><span style=color: rgba(14 12 9 1)>is by Renato Leduc a leading Mexican journalist who was </span><span style=color: rgba(31 27 22 1)>a </span><span style=color: rgba(14 12 9 1)>telegrapher </span><span style=color: rgba(31 27 22 1)>with </span><span style=color: rgba(14 12 9 1)>Villa's </span><span style=color: rgba(31 27 22 1)>army at </span><span style=color: rgba(14 12 9 1)>the time Reed </span><span style=color: rgba(31 27 22 1)>sent </span><span style=color: rgba(14 12 9 1)>his </span><span style=color: rgba(31 27 22 1)>dispatches from Mexico.</span></p><p><br></p>