The Riot Makers: The Technology Of Social Demolition by Eugene H. Methvin
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Overview: The Riot Makers began with a question asked by a magazine editor after the Tokyo riots of 1960 forced cancellation of a state visit by President Eisenhower. “All the newspapers say these are ‘Redinspired’ riots. How do we know? If you’re a Communist, how do you start a riot? Do they have a handbook or a course on it somewhere?”
Assigned to find the answers, Reader s Digest Washington editor Eugene H. Methvin began a long and sometimes harrowing quest with a simple call to the State Department. He asked to interview “experts” on the subject. A few days later a spokesman called back: “I’m embarrassed to have to tell you this, but we don’t have any experts on that subject. We don’t have anybody following such things.” The same answer came from other federal agencies. And so the author began interviews with intelligence experts, law enforcement people, and former Communists.
Meanwhile, with the Harlem explosion of July 1964 and Watts in 1965, riots became not a foreign but a domestic concern. The author travelled to the scene for on-the-spot investigations in Harlem, Berkeley, Detroit, Newark, Chicago, Atlanta, Columbia, and Washington. At Columbia he narrowly missed being mobbed and clubbed; in Washington he was gassed.
Mr. Methvin gives us blow-by-blow descriptions of what happened, and why, in the race riots at Newark and the student riots at Columbia. He adds what he has learned from the dozens of other riots he has witnessed and studied. And he demonstrates how today’s headlines are the result not of spontaneous events but of “the technology of social demolition.” He traces that technology back through history, shows the role of Lenin in its development.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics
Eugene H. Methvin was born in 1934 in Vienna, Georgia, where his father was editor and publisher of The Vienna News. He began his journalism education by sleeping on a bale of newsprint every Thursday night while his parents met the weekly deadline. At four, he climbed into a bucket of ink behind the family’s flatbed cylinder press, and not even a gasoline bath could get all the printer’s ink out of him.
Methvin studied journalism at the University of Georgia School of Journalism. Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism society, named him the most outstanding male graduate of 1955. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and worked briefly as a reporter on The Atlanta Constitution. He graduated cum laude, and spent his next three years as a jet fighter pilot in the Air Force.
In 1958 Methvin became a reporter on the Washington! Daily News, and in 1960 he joined the Reader s Digest Washington bureau. He is now an Associate Editor of that magazine. His 1965 article, “How the Reds Make a Riot,” won for the magazine the coveted award for public service in magazine journalism given annually by Sigma Delta Chi, and gave Mr. Methvin the idea of writing this book.
Methvin is a past president of Sigma Delta Chi’s Washington Professional Chapter, and a former member of the organization’s national board of directors. He and his wife, the former Barbara Lester of Byromville, Georgia, live in McLean, Virginia.
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