The legend of I. F. Stone, the feisty investigative journalist, cannot fail to have a certain resonance for anyone who has ever been caught up in the romance of newspapers. After the last progressive newspaper to employ him collapsed in 1952 and no other paper would hire him, the forty-five-year-old leftist radical started his own newsletter. Within a few years, I. F. Stone’s (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
Iffy Izzy
American RadicalThe Life and Times of I. F. StoneD. D. GuttenplanFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35, 592 pp.
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