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The best of I.F. Stone
- Title
- The best of I.F. Stone / I.F. Stone ; edited by Karl Weber ; introduction by Peter Osnos.
- Author
- Stone, I. F. (Isidor Feinstein), 1907-1989.
- Publication
- New York : Public Affairs, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 350 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "I. F. Stone was a reporter, a radical, and idealist, a scholar and, it is clear, a writer whose insights have stood the test of time. More than fifteen years after his death, this collection of his work from I. F. Stone's Weekly and elsewhere is astonishing in its relevance to our age, addressing the clash between national security and individual liberty; the rights of minorities; economic fairness; social justice; and the dangers of American militarism abroad."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Note
- Previously published essays appearing primarily in I.F. Stone's weekly reader; additional essays published in the Nation and The New York review of books.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Prologue : a word about myself -- Free speech is worth the risk -- Quis Custodiet Custodem? -- Einstein, Oxnam, and the inquisition -- The first welts on Joe McCarthy -- The cost of anticommunism -- Incommensurate equation : justice and security -- Freedom of the press : a minority opinion -- The court turns back the clock -- Boris Pasternak -- In defense of the campus rebels -- The crisis coming for a free press -- War comes to Washington -- The shake-up we need -- Washington's forbidden topic -- One year after Pearl Harbor -- Relaxing too soon -- How Washington took the news -- The same old codgers -- Brass hats undaunted -- The end of the war -- Organization for peace ... or against the Soviet Union? -- Unnoticed news bulletin -- Mr. Smith pleads for peace -- Shall we take the gamble Hitler lost? -- A chill falls on Washington -- First call for a test ban -- National suicide as a form of defense -- Natasha's ready answers -- The legacy of Stalin -- Almost as safe as ivory soap is pure? -- The mythology of the anti-missile missile -- Fresh light on the mystery of the missiles -- The rapid deterioration in our national leadership -- The voice of America falters -- May 17, 1954 -- The murder of Emmett Till -- Eisenhower goes neutralist - on civil rights -- The beginnings of a revolution -- The wall between -- When the Bourbon flowed -- The march on Washington -- The fire has only just begun -- The Mason-Dixon line moves to New York -- For the Jews - life or death? -- Jewry in a blind Alley -- Palestine pilgrimage -- The racist challenge in Israel -- Holy war -- What few know about the Tonkin Bay incidents -- Lyndon Johnson lets the office boy declare war -- Time to tell the truth for a change -- What it's like to be in Saigon -- Why we fail as revolutionaries -- While others dodge the draft, bobby dodges the war -- The mindless momentum of a runaway military machine -- Same old formulas, same tired rhetoric -- Only the bums can save the country now -- Thomas E. Dewey -- Farewell to F.D.R. -- LaGuardia and UNRRA -- Albert Einstein -- Goldwater and his tribe -- Curtis LeMay : cave man in a jet bomber -- Epilogue : for a universal day of atonement.
- ISBN
- 158648463X
- 9781586484637
- LCCN
- 2006050398
- OCLC
- ocm71173914
- SCSB-5280786
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries