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Along with stories on a wife-beating and a temperance rally one Saturday in 1851, Horace Greeley's New York Tribune printed a smoldering account of social upheaval and political intrigue in Europe. Under the headline: REVOLUTION AND COUNTERREVOLUTION, the Tribune dispatch carried the staccato byline: Karl Marx...
...life of Communism's founding father. This week Marx's ten-year stint as London correspondent for the Tribune is described in detail for the first time in the bimonthly American Heritage. Drawing heavily on Marx's previously untranslated correspondence, Author William Harlan Hale, 46, Greeley's biographer and now a staff writer for the Reporter, traces a strange saga of journalism...
...highly did Greeley regard his correspondent's outpourings that many of Marx's more than 500 Tribune articles appeared without byline among the paper's celebrated editorials. Says Hale: "Much of what the Tribune's subscribers took to be the work of Greeley was the work of Marx." Marx's opinion of "das Lauseblatt [that lousy rag]" was consistently low, and at first his command of English was poor. So many of the articles he passed off as his own (for $5 each) were ghostwritten for him by his financial angel and literary factotum, Friedrich...
Tail Twister. In the uneasy years before the Civil War, sweeping schemes for social reform were "far from subversive," Author Hale points out. Greeley himself advocated a more equitable distribution of wealth. As editor of an independent, successful newspaper, he "stood at the center of the turbulence as a barometer, a bellwether, a broker of notions and ideas." Though Marx's dispatches were laden with doom-fraught prophecies of social breakdown, Greeley's young managing editor, Charles A. Dana (later famed as owner-editor of the old New York Sun), happily assured his London correspondent: "They are read...
...Museum, gossip and newspapers in half a dozen languages, a mass of information on going topics such as had never reached an American newspaper before." Marx wrote on political developments in England, France, Spain, the Middle and Far East, "the whole world, as seen from his Soho garret." Editor Greeley, notes Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some of Marx's bitterest tirades for the Tribune, e.g., his dispatch on the plight of British workers during the depressed 18503, were bodily incorporated into...