The Pen That Set Mexico on Fire: The Betrayal of Ricardo Flores Magon During the Mexican Revolution - Devitt, Steve
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Ricardo Flores Magón, a journalist, published the most prominent resistance newspaper, Regeneración, in pre-revolutionary Mexico. From the United States, via railroads, Magón's ideas and publication reached every village, and every community. All the future leaders of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) read Regeneración and incorporated indigenous rights, land reform, worker rights, and many more revolutionary principles into their movements. True to his calling, hunted both in Mexico and the United States, Magón died in a US prison, shunted as an anarchist. The author, an accomplished…mehr

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Ricardo Flores Magón, a journalist, published the most prominent resistance newspaper, Regeneración, in pre-revolutionary Mexico. From the United States, via railroads, Magón's ideas and publication reached every village, and every community. All the future leaders of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) read Regeneración and incorporated indigenous rights, land reform, worker rights, and many more revolutionary principles into their movements. True to his calling, hunted both in Mexico and the United States, Magón died in a US prison, shunted as an anarchist. The author, an accomplished journalist, reexamines Magón's role as one of the most influential thinkers of the Mexican Revolution.
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Steve Devitt started writing for publication in 1963, as a junior in high school, writing for his high school newspaper in Billings Montana. He worked his way through college on journalism scholarships. In 1969, he became the youngest editor in Montana, working at the Choteau Acantha, a hot-lead weekly. Before moving on to teach at the university level in 1994, he edited half a dozen weeklies, two daily newspapers and had a successful career as a freelance writer. Since then, he has taught in the United States, China and Nigeria. In the 1970s, he wrote for what was then called "the underground press." He was an associate editor of the College Press Service, served as news editor of the Vancouver, BC, Georgia Strait. In 1980, he founded the Montana Maverick, a weekly he published for three years. He lives in Tucson, Ariz., with his wife Suyun, and Mr. Dog.