All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. StoneSimon and Schuster, 2008 M04 8 - 592 páginas Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, "All Governments Lie" is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices. In the world of Washington political journalism, notorious for trading independence for access, I. F. "Izzy" Stone was so unique as to be a genuine wonder. Always skeptical -- "All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out," he memorably quipped -- Stone was ahead of the pack on the most pivotal twentieth-century trends: the rise of Hitler and Fascism, disastrous Cold War foreign policies, covert actions of the FBI and CIA, the greatness of the Civil Rights movement, the horror of Vietnam, the strengths and weaknesses of the antiwar movement, the disgrace of Iran-contra, and the class greed of Reaganomics. His constant barrage against J. Edgar Hoover earned him close monitoring by the FBI from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War, and even an investigation for espionage during the fifties. After making his mark on feisty New York dailies and in The Nation -- scoring such scoops as the discovery of American cartels doing business with Nazi Germany -- Stone became unemployable during the dark days of McCarthyism. Out of desperation he started his four-page I. F. Stone's Weekly, which ran from 1953 to 1971. The first journalist to label the Gulf of Tonkin affair a sham excuse to escalate the Vietnam War, Stone garnered worldwide fans, was read in the corridors of power, and became wealthy. Later, the "world's oldest living freshman" learned Greek to write his bestseller The Trial of Socrates. Here, for the first time, acclaimed journalist and author Myra MacPherson brings the legendary Stone into sharp focus. Rooted in fifteen years of research, this monumental biography includes information from newly declassified international documents and Stone's unpublished five-thousand-page FBI file, as well as personal interviews with Stone and his wife, Esther; with famed modern thinkers; and with the best of today's journalists. It illuminates the vast sweep of turbulent twentieth-century history as well as Stone's complex and colorful life. The result is more than a masterful portrait of a remarkable character; it's a far-reaching assessment of journalism and its role in our culture. |
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... leaders played one against the other and their ideological internationalists were subdued by pragmatists . Vietnam is a prosperous free - enterprise partner with the United States now , after all that bloodshed . Stone did not live to ...
... leaders played one against the other and their ideological internationalists were subdued by pragmatists . Vietnam is a prosperous free - enterprise partner with the United States now , after all that bloodshed . Stone did not live to ...
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... . Stone's Weekly boxes, bordered in black, pioneered what YouTube, Jon Stewart's Daily Show, and blogs do with lightning relevancy as well as irreverence. Just as today's politicians and leaders are skewered by their Foreword xxv.
... . Stone's Weekly boxes, bordered in black, pioneered what YouTube, Jon Stewart's Daily Show, and blogs do with lightning relevancy as well as irreverence. Just as today's politicians and leaders are skewered by their Foreword xxv.
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... leaders are skewered by their own conflicting lies via video, Stone delighted in juxtaposing what Kissinger, for ... leader in an unpopular posse pursuing and ex- posing George W. Bush, said, “I get courage just knowing Izzy is out there ...
... leaders are skewered by their own conflicting lies via video, Stone delighted in juxtaposing what Kissinger, for ... leader in an unpopular posse pursuing and ex- posing George W. Bush, said, “I get courage just knowing Izzy is out there ...
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Contenido
Coming to America | 3 |
Beginnings | 12 |
Boy Publisher | 29 |
Raking the Muck and Red White and Blue Patriotism | 41 |
Newspaperman in Knee Pants | 60 |
The Decisive Decade | 79 |
Crashing into the Thirties | 81 |
New Deal New Life New York Post | 95 |
Guilty Until Proven Innocent | 246 |
A Hot War and a Cold Murder | 264 |
Going It Alone | 283 |
Chasing Izzy | 285 |
Lies and Spies | 307 |
A Guerrilla Warrior during the Fifties Fetish | 329 |
Confessions | 348 |
A Bloody Revolution at Home | 359 |
American Dictators and Not Always Popular Fronts | 118 |
Hitler Lippmann Izzy and the Jews | 135 |
My Heart Is with the Spanish Loyalists | 152 |
When Tyrants Ruled | 163 |
Washington Wars Hot and Cold | 179 |
Nation on the Brink | 181 |
Great Expectations | 196 |
Living with Izzy | 211 |
Blood and Billions and Going Underground | 228 |
and Castro | 378 |
From Iconoclast to Icon | 435 |
Stone vs Socrates | 457 |
The Last of the Great Fog Cutters | 475 |
Acknowledgments | 483 |
Notes | 489 |
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All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone Myra MacPherson Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
"All Governments Lie": The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone Myra MacPherson Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
"All Governments Lie": The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone Myra MacPherson Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
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