Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907��989)��magnetic, witty, indefatigable��eft a
permanent mark on our politics and culture. A college dropout, he was already an influential newsman by the age of twenty-five, enjoying extraordinary access to key figures in Washington and
New York. Guttenplan finds the key to Stone�� achievements throughout his singular career��ot just in the celebrated I. F. Stone�� Weekly��ay in the force and passion of his political
commitments. Stone�� calm and forensic yet devastating reports on American politics and institutions sprang from a radical faith in the long-term prospects for American democracy.�
In an era when the old radical questions��bout war, the economy, health care, and the right to dissent��re suddenly new again, Guttenplan�� lively, provocative book makes clear why so many of Stone�� pronouncements have acquired the force of prophecy.
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