Best of I. F. Stone

by Stone, I. F.

• ISBN13: 9781586484637
• ISBN10: 158648463X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-28
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Politics

Author Biography

I.F. (Izzy) Stone (1907–1989) had a remarkable journalistic career, as an editorialist at the New York Post during the Great Depression, a longtime staffer at The Nation, the author of many books, and the founder and editor of his own I.F. Stone's Weekly, he "spoke truth to power" with an effectiveness that few have done before or since.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Peter Osnos	ix
Editor's Note	xv
Prologue: A Word About Myself	1	(10)
1. WORTH THE RISK
Free Speech Is Worth the Risk	11	(3)
Quis Custodiet Custodem?	14	(3)
Einstein, Oxnam, and the Inquisition	17	(6)
The First Welts on Joe McCarthy	23	(5)
The Cost of Anticommunism	28	(2)
Incommensurate Equation: Justice and Security	30	(5)
Freedom of the Press: A Minority Opinion	35	(3)
The Court Turns Back the Clock	38	(4)
Boris Pasternak	42	(3)
In Defense of the Campus Rebels	45	(4)
'File Crisis Coming for a Free Press	49	(10)
2. A GOOD WAR—BUT FOR WHAT?
War Comes to Washington	59	(4)
File Shake-up We Need	63	(4)
Washington's Forbidden Topic	67	(4)
One Year After Pearl Harbor	71	(4)
Relaxing Too Soon	75	(4)
How Washington Took the News	79	(4)
The Same Old Codgers	83	(4)
Brass Hats Undaunted	87	(6)
The End of the War	93	(3)
Organization for Peace...Or Against the Soviet Union?	96	(7)
3. TWILIGHT STRUGGLE
Unnoticed News Bulletin	103	(3)
Mr. Smith Pleads for Peace	106	(2)
Shall We Take the Gamble Hitler Lost?	108	(4)
A Chill Falls on Washington	112	(3)
First Call for a Test Ban	115	(3)
National Suicide as a Form of Defense	118	(5)
Natasha's Ready Answers	123	(7)
The Legacy of Stalin	130	(8)
Almost as Safe as Ivory Soap Is Pure?	138	(4)
The Mythology of the Anti-Missile Missile	142	(5)
Fresh Light on the Mystery of the Missiles	147	(9)
The Rapid Deterioration in Our National Leadership	156	(7)
4. THE WALL BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE
The Voice of America Falters	163	(3)
May 17, 1954	166	(2)
The Murder of Emmett Till	168	(3)
Eisenhower Goes Neutralist—On Civil Rights	171	(3)
The Beginnings of a Revolution	174	(3)
The Wall Between	177	(2)
When the Bourbon Flowed	179	(9)
The March on Washington	188	(3)
The Fire Has Only Just Begun	191	(4)
The Mason-Dixon Line Moves to New York	195	(10)
5. A PROMISED LAND?
For the Jews—Life or Death?	205	(4)
Jewry in a Blind Alley	209	(4)
Palestine Pilgrimage	213	(6)
The Racist Challenge in Israel	219	(6)
Holy War	225	(22)
6. A WAR MADE OF LIES
What Few Know About the Tonkin Bay Incidents	247	(9)
Lyndon Johnson Lets the Office Boy Declare War	256	(4)
Time to Tell the Truth for a Change	260	(6)
What It's Like to Be in Saigon	266	(10)
Why We Fail as Revolutionaries	276	(5)
While Others Dodge the Draft, Bobby Dodges the War	281	(3)
The Mindless Momentum of a Runaway Military Machine	284	(4)
Same Old Formulas, Same Tired Rhetoric	288	(4)
Only the Bums Can Save the Country Now	292	(11)
7. HEROES AND OTHERS
Thomas E. Dewey	303	(6)
Farewell to F.D.R.	309	(4)
LaGuardia and UNRRA	313	(4)
Albert Einstein	317	(2)
Goldwater and His Tribe	319	(7)
Curtis LeMay: Cave Man in a Jet Bomber	326	(13)
Epilogue: For a Universal Day of Atonement	339	(2)
Index	341