Betrayed By History

It was the most radical periodical of its time. The intellectual successor to the dry socialist Comrade, the Masses was a magazine of “free expression” that embraced Marxists and Freudians, socialists, atheists, Wobblies, women’s suffragists, feminists, free love advocates, rebels, and bohemians. Its contributors included Sherwood Anderson, Stuart Davis, Max Eastman, Walter Lippmann, John Reed, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, John Sloan, and Lincoln Steffens...