Bücher von John Kenneth Turner

"I found Mexico to be a land where the people are poor because they have no rights, where peonage is the rule for the great mass, and where actual chattel slavery obtains for hundreds of thousands." ¿ John Kenneth Turner, Barbarous MexicoIn Barbarous Mexico (1911), John Kenneth Turner describes the corruption and brutal labor system he observed during three years of involvement in a revolutionary movement which led to the overthrow of Mexico's ruler Porfirio Diaz in 1910. The book is organized around three themes: the slave life of the plantations, the elitism of the Diaz government, and the role of foreign governments in supporting the oppression of the Mexican people.

"There can be no more important issue than the issue of war with Mexico; for all other issues are tied up with it. The forces of progress will have to gather swift strength, or they will feel the crunch of the Iron Heel." -John Kenneth Turner, Hands Off MexicoIn Hands Off Mexico (1918), John Kenneth Turner, who, along with his wife, had long been involved in Mexico's revolutionary movement, sought to plead the Mexican cause during a time when the US government was reevaluating its policies toward Mexico. His pleas for the US to refrain from invading Mexico, played an important role in the drafting of the US Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924.

John Kenneth Turner, a crusading California newspaperman, presents the causes of the Mexican Revolution in Barbarous Mexico, his expose of the Diaz regime.