{"id":254,"date":"2006-12-18T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T17:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2006\/12\/18\/stone-not-stoned\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T23:49:48","slug":"stone-not-stoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2006\/12\/stone-not-stoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Not Stoned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just to be self-referential, to refer to something I’ve published elsewhere, here is my review of the new biography<\/a> of iconoclast commentator I.F. Stone. (No, not self-reverential.)<\/p>\n

Reading other reviews is very interesting. Essentially all the majors come in already liking or hating Stone, and that colors their write-ups. At least one is a fan who was a protege and there is one by an enemy who also was a protege but then changed politically. You can’t guess where Christopher Hitchens would come down, but he likes<\/a> the man and the book. The New Yorker’s<\/em> had a couple of facts that must have come from some direct knowledge or other sources, as they disagreed with what I wrote, which came straight from the book — like what year Stone moved to Washington (link not readily available).<\/p>\n

I say McPherson convinces me that Izzy Stone was politically influential. He was as influential as a relatively little-known journalist can be. He came up with scoops that then were followed up by top publications and broadcasters over a fairly long career. But did he end the Cold War or the Vietnam War, or cause either to end even a minute sooner?<\/p>\n

Naw. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just to be self-referential, to refer to something I’ve published elsewhere, here is my review of the new biography of iconoclast commentator I.F. Stone. (No, not self-reverential.) Reading other reviews is very interesting. Essentially all the majors come in already liking or hating Stone, and that colors their write-ups. At least one is a fan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-of-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2679,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2011\/02\/stones-throw-from-campus\/","url_meta":{"origin":254,"position":0},"title":"Stone’s Throw from Campus","author":"Ben S. 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