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Maik, Thomas A. The Masses Magazine (1911-1917): Odyssey of an Era. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. 254 pp. $68.
Although there has been considerable scholarly attention paid to The Masses magazine, Thomas A. Maik's book, The Masses Magazine (1911-1917): Odyssey of an Era, still deserves to be read. The book thoroughly chronicles the short-lived socialist magazine from its inauspicious beginning in 1911 as a champion of the concept of cooperative grocery stores to its transformation in 1912 into a revolutionary journal that combined art and politics until its demise in 1917 when the United States government silenced it forever. In addition, Maik examines the era in which the magazine was published, the people who produced it, and the place where it was published (New York's Greenwich Village).
After Max Eastman took over...