Carleton Beals was among America's 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. Beals's dispatches and features appeared
regularly in the Nation, New Republic, Current History and the
Progressive, and often in the New York Times. Time magazine called
him "the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin
America." Forty books, including chronicles, political analysis and
novels, drawn mostly from his travels and wide-ranging contacts in
what he called "America South" made that characterization apt. But
Beals was also an eyewitness reporter on Mussolini's rise in Italy.
He wrote on U.S. topics too, such as Louisiana's Huey Long, and the
environmental damage and rural migration in the 1930s caused by
emerging agri-business in America's South and West. Many of his
books were best-sellers, their evidence-based assessments earning
at least grudging respect even among those who took issue with his
indictments of U.S. economic and government elites. At once
biography and analytical history, The Rebel Scribe tells the story
of a fiercely independent non-conformist. It probes Beals's
interactions with political leaders, democrats, demagogues,
populists and revolutionaries, and reveals how his ability to
immerse himself in their societies gave his accounts a palpable
authenticity and, time has shown, a prescience that is almost
prophetic. Christopher Neal's layered narrative traces how Beals
identified patterns of political behavior and concepts that later
became fully-fledged schools of thought, such as the idea of a
Third World, dependency theory, U.S. neo-imperialism, and aspects
of critical theory. His story sheds light on the evolution of U.S.
foreign policy and intervention, from Mexico and Nicaragua in the
1920s, to Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s. It reveals the fraught
trail that faced--and still faces--contrarian journalists who
challenge conventional assumptions, while also showing how probing
journalism drives change.
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