Randolph Bourne
About the Author
Randolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was an essayist and public intellectual. Bourne left an unfinished, unpaginated draft of The State when he died during the flu pandemic of 1918. The draft was published posthumously, with some material incorrectly ordered, in Untimely Papers (1919). This edition follows the corrected ordering used in most printed editions of Bourne’s work.