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Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
Stone, I.F.
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, USAYear Published: 1972 Pages: 497pp Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX7569 An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970. Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Part I: When Two Equals One Who Are The Democrats? Party of the Rich and Well-Born A Grateful Patsy Against a Dirty Fighter? The Candidate Least Likely To Make Peace The GOP Convention Was Not Without Its Cheering Aspects When a Two-Party System Becomes a One-Party Rubber Stamp Why Hubert Is As Tricky as Dicky Part II: 'Saigon Afire Now…' The Monster with Little Brain and No Heart The Fraud with Which Bomb Resumption was Excused The Mendacities Go Marching On, Truce or No Truce How TV and Press Were Led to Rehash Those Tet Supply Lies They'd Do Anything For the Peasant But Get Off His Back The Mindless Momentum of a Runaway Military Machine If Daddy Keeps at It, Luci, One Day You Won't Wake Up None So Blind as Those Who Will Not See Saignon Afire Now - Will It Be Washington In April? Part III: '…Will It Be Washington in April' The Fire Has Only Just Begun Billions for Missiles and Pennies for Poverty The Mason-Dixon Line Moves to New York Nixon About to Abolish Hunger "For All Time" - Again The Real Meaning of Nixon's Judicial Philosophies Part IV Nixon: The Evil of Banality So What's a Little Isaiah Between Friends? Uncle Sam's Con Man Budget Same Old Formulas, Same Tired Rhetoric Midway to a Nguyen Van Nixon Era Nixon in the Footsteps of Popeye's Elder Statesman Part V: The Menace of Militarism McNamara and the Militarists On National Defence, Space, and Foreign Policy, the New GOP Platform Reads as If Written by General Dynamics for a New Arms Race A Goldwater to Head the Pentagon Nixon and the Arms Race: The Bomber Boondoggle Nixon and the Arms Race: How Much Is "Sufficiency"? The War Machine Under Nixon Heading for a Bigger Arms Race in the Seventies Part VI Disarmament: A Century of Futility How Earth Day Was Polluted Why SALT Spells Fraud A Century of Futility Theatre of Delusion The Test Ban Comedy Part VII: That Barroom Brawl with the Lights Out Revisited All We Really Know Is That We Fired the First Shots McNamara and Tonkin Bay: The Unanswered Questions The Supineness of the Senate Part VIII: Endless War Why Not Timbuktu or Easter Island? Playing for Time to Continue the War? The Willful Blindness of McGeorge Bundy Why the Casualties Rise as Peace Talks Go On The Best-Kept Secret of the Vietnam War Immediate Withdrawal Becoming a Bandwagon Lessons for Nixon The Atrocities Nixon Condones and Continues Nixon, Inflation and the War Nixon's Iron Curtain on the Coast of the War Only the Bums Can Save the Country Now Part IX: The Mideast Holy War The Need for Double Vision in the Middle East Part X: Pax Americana How the U.S. Plays Out a Banana Republic Comedy in Greece The First Military Dictatorship with a Free (but Suspended) Constitution Part XI: 'It Wasn't for Lack of Spies…' It Wasn't for Lack of Spies That the Czars Fell The Mujik as the Negro of the Russian Revolution The Rebirth of Freedom - or of Fascism? Who Are the Real Kooks in Our Society? Where the Fuse on That Dynamite Leads Part XII: The Streets The Rich March on Washington All the Time They Pleaded Guilty of Burning Paper Instead of Children In Defence of the Campus Rebels Bitter Battles Lie Ahead The major issues in the United States in the late 1960s are explored in this anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970. These include the Vietnam war, the social unrest in the nation, the conflict in the Middle East and the nature of the American political system, amongst many others. Divided into twelve sections, the book contains chapters with titles like "Why Not Timbuktoo or Easter Island?," "It Wasn't for Lack of Spies That the Czars Fell," "How the U.S. plays Out a Banana Republic Comedy in Greece," and "Nixon in the Footsteps of Popeye's Elder Statesman." It is an in-depth look into the situation of that time from Stone's point of view. I.F. Stone was a reporter, editorial writer and columnist on the Philadelphia Record, PM, the New York Post, the Washington Star and the New York Daily Compass. He was Washington editor of The Nation from 1940-1946 and then published his own newsletter, I.F. Stone's Weekly. [Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] I.F Stone's third collection of articles, Polemics and Prophecies, 1967-1970, has come out in paperback. (Vintage, $3.25). Like the first two volumes, The Haunted Fifties and especially In a Time of Torment, it is a superb collection of masterful journalism. With an uncanny sense of news Stone ferrets out facts, many of them in little-known reports of the U.S. government itself, that damn the holders of power. While his analysis is not always perfect (whose is?), his pieces on the two-party system ("When Two Equals One"), The Vietnam War ("The Monster with Little Brain and No Heart"), Richard Nixon ("The Evil of Banality"), militarism, social measures ("Billions for Missiles and Pennies for Poverty"), disarmament ("A Century of Futility"), the Mideast, and other topics, are invaluable. I can't think of a better regular interpreter of the current scene than Stone. When it comes to powerful radical journalism, Stone has a lot to teach [review by Ulli Diemer] Subject Headings
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