American Radical - Hardcover

Guttenplan, D. D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0704372274 ISBN 13: 9780704372276

Verlag: Quartet Books, 2011

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'This is the right book at the right time from the right author.' --Jonathan Freedland, Guardian

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America's most celebrated investigative journalist himself remains something of a mystery. Born Isidor Feinstein in Philadelphia, raised in rural New Jersey, by the age of 25 this college drop-out was already an influential newsman, and enjoying extraordinary access to key figures in New Deal Washington and the friendship of important artists in New York. It is Guttenplan's wisdom to see that the key to Stone's achievements throughout his singular career-and not just in his celebrated I.F. Stone's Weekly-lay in the force and passion of his political commitments. Stone's calm, forensic, yet devastating reports on American politics and institutions sprang from a radical faith in the long-term prospects for American democracy. His testimony on the legacy of American politics from the New Deal and World War II to the era of the civil rights struggles, the Vietnam War, and beyond amounts to as vivid a record of those times as we are likely to have. Guttenplan's lively, provocative book makes clear why so many of his pronouncements have acquired the force of prophecy.

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• Verlag: Quartet Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0704372274
• ISBN 13: 9780704372276
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 592