If stone biography books
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Izzy: A Biography of I.F. Stone
Robert Charles Cottrell. Rutgers University Press, $35 (388pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-1847-3
Stone (1907-1989), an industrious and intellectually consistent American journalist in a yrke not noted for either virtue, certainly deserves a full-length study, and this biography is ingenting if not painstaking. Cottrell, an associate professor of history at the University of California, has obviously plowed through copious stacks of back issues of the Nation , the New Leader , P.M. and other leftist journals as well as Stone's own admired Newsletter. His book thoroughly records the evolution of the American Left from its New Deal peak to its postwar nadir and current state of sullen uncertainty. Through it all Stone kept a straight socialist viewpoint, disappointed by, and sometimes willfully blind to, the faults of the Soviet Union, but always seeking a fairer America. Cottrell certainly keeps this undeviating course firmly in view, and quotes Stone ofte
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I. F. Stone
American investigative journalist, writer, and author (1907–1989)
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Stone in April 1972 | |
| Born | Isidor Feinstein Stone (1907-12-24)December 24, 1907 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | June 18, 1989(1989-06-18) (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Investigative journalist |
| Employer(s) | New York Post, The Nation, PM |
| Known for | I. F. Stone's Weekly |
| Children | Inter alia, Jeremy, Christopher D. |
| Website | www.ifstone.org |
Isidor Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989) was an American investigative journalist, writer, and author.[1][2]
Known for his politically progressive views, Stone is best remembered for I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–1971), a newsletter which the New York University journalism department in 1999 ranked 16th among the top hundred works of journalism in the U.S. in the
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The Best of I.F. Stone | Jewish Book Council
A problem for the reviewer: Whether to begin by reading I.F. Stone’s own writings, as presented in a collection of the best of his collected essays, or to uppstart with MacPherson’s biography of this legendary journalist? Both approaches are defensible, but ultimately, the decision was made to absorb how Stone himself perceived important events and then to use his beliefs as a check against his biographer’s examination of his life.
I.F. Stone’s Weekly, a one-man newsletter published between 1953 and 1971, was as independent of outside influences as Stone: suspicious of governments and the spin they put on events, fiercely intolerant of demagoguery, fearful of man’s potential for causing nuclear disaster, and although a philosophical supporter of Zionism, critical of the State of Israel. In his weekly analyses, Stone illuminated these issues, chal