Sotto le mura del Cremlino, tra gli eroi dell'Unione Sovietica, è seppellito anche un cittadino statunitense, John Reed. Giornalista di fama internazionale e militante comunista, durante il primo conflitto mondiale fu inviato di guerra per il 'Metropolitan Magazine' e per 'The Masses'. Nonostante i suoi articoli fossero stati colpiti da censura, divenne uno dei giornalisti più apprezzati, soprattutto per i suoi resoconti La guerra nell'Europa orientale 1915. Nell'autunno del 1917 partì per Pietrogrado con l'intento di osservare da vicino la rivoluzione che aveva portato al crollo dell'impero zarista, e tre anni più tardi morì di tifo a Mosca, a soli trentatré anni. Rosenstone in un libro pieno di azione e dramma, riesce a raccontare il John Reed scrittore, giornalista e pensatore politico, l'uomo che, secondo Trockij 'sapeva vedere e ascoltare', ma che sapeva indubbiamente anche scrivere, al punto che Lenin raccomandò la lettura 'agli operai di tutto il mondo' de 'I dieci giorni che sconvolsero il mondo', una delle più affascinanti cronache della Rivoluzione russa.

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations--Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval.

Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball's elite gained acceptance in Major League Baseball and financial stability in the mainstream economy, shock waves traveled throughout the black business world. Though the economic impact on Negro League baseball is perhaps obvious due to its demise, the impact on other black-owned businesses and on segregated neighborhoods is often undervalued if not outright ignored in current accounts. There have been many books written on great individual players who played in the Negro Leagues and/or integrated the Major Leagues. But Newman and Rosen move beyond hagiography to analyze what happens when a community has its economic footing undermined while simultaneously being called upon to celebrate a larger social progress. In this regard, Black Baseball, Black Business moves beyond the diamond to explore baseball's desegregation narrative in a critical and wide-ranging fashion.

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