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Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Cottrell has written over twenty books, including biographies of ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He is the author most recently of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture . Cottrell, professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, has also taught in London; Puebla, Mexico; and Moscow, Russia, in the latter instance as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He is presently completing a new book, The American Left: From the Wobblies to Black Lives Matter . Klappentext This Rutgers University Press classic is a tale of the life and times of I. F. “Izzy” Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone’s own writings to tell the tale of one of the most significant journalists, intellectuals, and political mavericks of the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung Tells the classic story of the life and times of I.F.’Izzy' Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone's own writings to tell the tale of one of the most significant journalists, intellectuals, and political mavericks of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction 1 Izzy, the Icon 2 Early Progress and Greater Philadelphia 3 On the Record 4 A New Deal and the Popular Front at the Post 5 The American Left, Interventionism, and Civil Liberties 6 Fighting the Good War 7 Going Underground 8 The Demise of the Old Left 9 The Panic Was On 10 A “Little Flea-Bite Publication” 11 “We Have to Learn to Think in a New Way” 12 Knockin’ on Jim Crow’s Doors 13 “The Steve Canyon Comic Strip Mentality” 14 Telling Truth to Power: The Emperor Has No Clothes 15 From Pariah to Character to National Institution 16 An Old Firehorse in Semiretirement 17 A Return to the Classics 18 The Rock of Stone Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index ...
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Robert C. Cottrell has written over twenty books, including biographies of ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He is the author most recently of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture. Cottrell, professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, has also taught in London; Puebla, Mexico; and Moscow, Russia, in the latter instance as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He is presently completing a new book, The American Left: From the Wobblies to Black Lives Matter.
