Ebook {Epub PDF} Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed by Robert A. Rosenstone

Robert A. Rosenstone is Professor of History, California Institute of Technology, and author of Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan and Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (both from Harvard). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title/5(13).  · John Reed (Octo – Octo) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the first World War, and later became best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.4/5. It is crime-free and secure cyberspace. Our Romantic Revolutionary A Biography Of John Reed|Robert A Rosenstone5 service uses the latest security gains to protect your essay details, personal data, and financial operations from any internal and external dangers. A user-friendly privacy policy ensures your confidentiality is preserved while a refund policy guarantees % satisfaction with the /10().

In Robert Rosenstone's chronicle of Reed's short, 33‐year life, the crucial moment came in in the Passaic County, N. J., jail, where Reed was taken after his arrest during a visit to a silk. organize | filter. Works by Robert A. Rosenstone. Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed copies, 1 review. Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History 40 copies, 1 review. History on Film/Film on History 38 copies. Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan 30 copies. Rosenstone has also worked on several films, both dramatic features and documentaries. His award winning biography of John Reed (Romantic Revolutionary, Knopf, ) was used as the basis for the Academy Award winning Reds, on which he worked as historical consultant for seven years.

This biography captures well the mix of immaturity, turn-of-the-century boosterism, self-aggrandizement and revolutionary passion that made up Reed's character. (If you are a lover of the film "Reds," as I am, it also provides an interesting corrective to the film's loose handling of some of the facts of Reed's life.). Robert A. Rosenstone, Emeritus Professor of History at Caltech, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed (Knopf, ) and, most recently, Adventures of a Postmodern Historian (Bloomsbury, ). He is the Founding Editor of the journal Rethinking History. Life. Rosenstone was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Jewish immigrants. He lived most of his life in Los Angeles, California. He received a Ph.D degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles in He was Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon from to