Journalist. He was an American journalist and political activist for Latin American countries. Arriving in Mexico City by a wild burro in 1917, Beals witnessed and reported four Mexican rebellions, Mussolini's rise to power in Italy, and General Augusto Sandino's guerrilla uprising against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s. After his family left Kansas for California when he was age three, he attended the University of California at Berkeley where he studied engineering and mining. He was awarded the Bonnheim Essay Prize and the Bryce History Essay Prize. After graduating in 1916 cum laude, he attended Columbia University in New York City on a graduate scholarship, earning a master's degree in 1917. After being arrested for dodging the draft during World War I, he and his wife tour many parts of the world. He studied at the University of Madrid, and then the University of Rome. He wrote over 200 magazine articles, which were published in "Harper's Magazine" and "New Republic." His autobiography "Glass Houses" was published in 1931. After authoring the biographies for Porfirio Díaz, Huey P. Long, Roberto de la Selva, Stephen F. Austin, John Eliot, Carrie Nation, and Leon Trotsky, he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for biographies. The final chapter in his Latin American career was his coverage of Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the 1950s.
Journalist. He was an American journalist and political activist for Latin American countries. Arriving in Mexico City by a wild burro in 1917, Beals witnessed and reported four Mexican rebellions, Mussolini's rise to power in Italy, and General Augusto Sandino's guerrilla uprising against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s. After his family left Kansas for California when he was age three, he attended the University of California at Berkeley where he studied engineering and mining. He was awarded the Bonnheim Essay Prize and the Bryce History Essay Prize. After graduating in 1916 cum laude, he attended Columbia University in New York City on a graduate scholarship, earning a master's degree in 1917. After being arrested for dodging the draft during World War I, he and his wife tour many parts of the world. He studied at the University of Madrid, and then the University of Rome. He wrote over 200 magazine articles, which were published in "Harper's Magazine" and "New Republic." His autobiography "Glass Houses" was published in 1931. After authoring the biographies for Porfirio Díaz, Huey P. Long, Roberto de la Selva, Stephen F. Austin, John Eliot, Carrie Nation, and Leon Trotsky, he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for biographies. The final chapter in his Latin American career was his coverage of Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the 1950s.
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