Volume 25, Number 18 · November 23, 1978
American Prophet
By Daniel Aaron
The Radical Will: Randolph Bourne Selected Writings, 1911-1918
edited and with an introduction by Olaf Hansen, preface by Christopher Lasch
Urizen Books, 548 pp., $7.95 (paper)
If the name Randolph Silliman Bourne is now even faintly recognizable to the general reader, it is likely to be associated with the elegy to 'the tiny twisted unscared ghost' of one of the 'biographies' of Dos Passos's U.S.A. Dos Passos had a penchant for martyrs, and his tribute to the radical pacifist who opposed American entrance into President Wilson's war memorialized both a man and a legend.
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