| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 350 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Previously published essays appearing primarily in I.F. Stone's weekly reader; additional essays published in the Nation and The New York review of books. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : a word about myself -- Free speech is worth the risk -- Quis custodiet custodem? -- Einstein, Oxnam, and the inquisition -- The first welts on Joe McCarthy -- The cost of anticommunism -- Incommensurate equation : justice and security -- Freedom of the press : a minority opinion -- The court turns back the clock -- Boris Pasternak -- In defense of the campus rebels -- The crisis coming for a free press -- War comes to Washington -- The shake-up we need -- Washington's forbidden topic -- One year after Pearl Harbor -- Relaxing too soon -- How Washington took the news -- The same old codgers -- Brass hats undaunted -- The end of the war -- Organization for peace, or against the Soviet Union? -- Unnoticed news bulletin -- Mr. Smith pleads for peace -- Shall we take the gamble Hitler lost? -- A chill falls on Washington -- First call for a test ban -- National suicide as a form of defense -- Natasha's ready answers -- The legacy of Stalin -- Almost as safe as Ivory Soap is pure? -- The mythology of the anti-missile missile -- Fresh light on the mystery of the missiles -- The rapid deterioration of our national leadership -- The Voice of America falters -- May 17, 1954 -- The murder of Emmett Till -- Eisenhower goes neutralist on civil rights -- The beginnings of a revolution -- The wall between -- When the bourbon flowed -- The march on Washington -- The fire has only just begun -- The Mason-Dixon line moves to New York -- For the Jews : life or death? -- Jewry in a blind alley -- Palestine pilgrimage -- The racist challenge in Israel -- Holy war -- What few know about the Tonkin Bay incidents -- Lyndon Johnson lets the office boy declare war -- Time to tell the truth for a change -- What it's like to be in Saigon -- Why we fail as revolutionaries -- While others dodge the draft, Bobby dodges the war -- The mindless momentum of a runaway military machine -- Same old formulas, same tired rhetoric -- Only the bums can save the country now -- Thomas E. Dewey -- Farewell to F.D.R. -- LaGuardia and UNRRA -- Albert Einstein -- Goldwater and his tribe -- Curtis LeMay : cave man in a jet bomber -- Epilogue : for a universal day of atonement. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Added Author |
Weber, Karl, 1953-
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Stone, I. F. (Isidor Feinstein), 1907-1989
I.F. Stone's weekly reader.
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| ISBN |
158648463X |
| Standard No. |
9781586484637 |
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