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Insurgent Mexico

Reed, John, 1887-1920.

The Mississippi Valley Historical Review:

"Mr. Reed's book describes insurgent Mexico from the newspaper correspondent's or magazine writer's point of view. Therein Mr. Reed presents to us a remarkable true and vivid picture of Mexico as it is today. Almost without comment on his part he describes the Mexican people, their country, their life, their customs, and so forth, choosing his details with unerring skill, and presenting the picture with charming directness and simplicity. In so doing Mr. Reed has succeeded in bringing before an Anglo-American public a sympathetic picture of a Spanish-American people, making clear therewith some of the striking differences that render understanding and intercourse between the two so difficult."

"Reed's Insurgent Mexico shows the writer as he is and at his best, as a realist in the artistic sense, who describes life as he sees it, on the human side. Always sympathetic, thoroughly steeped in his subject, Mr. Reed still succeeds in keeping his personality from the pages. Vividly dramatic, full of realism, in itself romance, accurate and sane, are these sketches that Mr. Reed affords us in his Insurgent Mexico - a contribution, be is said, to the human and artistic aspects of this trouble-torn country." Review: [untitled], by Lindley M. Keasbey The Mississippi Valley Historical Review (copyright 1915), Organization of American Historians.