The City of the Yellow Devil is what Gorkey called New York,the symbol of imperialist America.
"I have never seen such a nonstrous town before" he wrote."And never did people seem such insignificant aandsuch enslaved creatures".
The collection includes Gorkey's widely known features,pamphlets,articles,and also letters he wrote during his stay in the USA in 1906.
In these writings Gorkey shows the social face of America the falsity of bourgeois democracy and his feeling for the working people,capable of "creating a new life,a brotherly life, a life governed by reason and light"