John Reed and the Writing of RevolutionJohn Reed (1887 1920) is best known as the author of Ten Days That Shook the World and as champion of the communist movement in the United States. Still, Reed remains a writer almost systematically ignored by the literary critical establishment, even if alternately vilified and lionized by historians and by films like Warren Beattys Reds. John Reed and the Writing of Revolution examines Reeds writing from a different critical perspectiveone informed