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Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will give a bicentennial address on Tuesday at the rededication of the Washington Memorial at the Cambridge Common, John Reed, the director of the Cambridge Bicentennial Corporation, said yesterday...
...REED COVERED THE ACTION on the Eastern Front during the First World War for New Masses, then sneaked across German lines to Leningrad in 1917. The even-headed leadership of Lenin impressed him and Reed was convinced that the Bolshevik party was the only group which could safely navigate the Russian people around the dangers of counter-revolution. There are some indications that in the last months of his life Reed became somewhat disenchanted with certain elements of the Communist leadership. Zineview, the head of the Comintern for which Reed was working, struck him as particularly arrogant and tyrannical...
...life of a journalist presents certain problems for the biographer, problems which Rosenstone does not adequately resolve. Why read about John Reed in Leningrad when we have his own superb account of the period, Ten Days That Shook the World, or about his adventures with Villa's troops when they are carefully chronicled in Reed's In-surgent Mexico...
...avoid being superfluous, Rosenstone would have to provide some sort of framework within which Reed's drive to participate in these events could be understood. Rosenstone, however, fails to do this. In his preface, he declares himself against imposing "any full blown psychological theory" on Reed's life and says he will instead use "my own understanding of how and why men act." What this "understanding" consists of, however, is never elaborated. Rosenstone is content to make vague generalizations about "men of Reed's generation" and "the nature of modern society...
...Ragtime. Many of the same great personages appear--Emma Goldmann, Henry Ford, Pancho Villa--and one gets the same impression of noncontingent events held together by a single thread. In the case of Ragtime, the thread is Doctorow's narrative structure, and here it is the presence of John Reed as observer of and participant in history. But unlike Ragtime, Rosenstone's book need not be played slowly. Romantic Revolutionary is best read quickly, selectively, so as to glean the golden Russian wheat of Reed's life from the chaff of Rosenstone's analysis...