The Rebel Scribe

Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America

af Christopher Neal

Carleton Beals was among AmericaΓÇÖs most distinctive foreign correspondents. His colorful, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp from which he fought thousands of U.S marines in 1928, covered two revolutions in Cuba (1933 and 1959), and interpreted the Mexican Revolution for American readers. BealsΓÇÖs dispatches and features appeare... (Læs mere)