Volume 8, Number 11 · June 15, 1967

K. Marx, Reporter

By Murray Kempton
The American Journalism of Marx and Engels
edited by Henry M. Christman, Introduction by Charles Blitzer

New American Library, 267 pp., $6.95

Dr. Blitzer's Introduction to this selection of thirty-three of the more than five hundred dispatches which Marx and Engels composed for Greeley and Dana's New York Daily Tribune is so exemplary a work of information without intrusion that it is embarrassing to begin by finding fault with its conclusion. If Marx seems 'less striking and original today' than he must have seemed in the mid-nineteenth century, this is because, Dr. Blitzer says,



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