D D Guttenplan (author of "American Radical: The Life and Times of I F Stone") explores the life and work of one of the 20th century’s great radical journalists.
Co-hosted by Peace News (www.peacenews.info) and the National Union of Journalists (www.nuj.org.uk)
Chaired by Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper)
Web: http://tinyurl.com/americanradical
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"American Radical is a ripping yarn, a really good read. Guttenplan writes masterfully" – Julian Assange, from the foreward to the British edition.
About I F Stone:
"In a journalistic poll to determine the “Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century.” I.F. Stone's Weekly was rated 16th. And this was the second highest rating accorded any sustained print journalism in the entire century (i.e., fourteen of the fifteen higher-ranked works of journalism were books or related to radio or TV journalism). By contrast, Murray Kempton’s columns were ranked 49th and Walter Lippmann was ranked 64th for “Early essays for the New Republic. 1914.”" - read more here: http://www.ifstone.org/
About D D Guttenplan:
DD Guttenplan is London correspondent for the Nation, and the author of American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone. A former reporter and columnist for New York Newsday, his essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Granta, Harper's, The London Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the TLS, Vanity Fair and the Village Voice. Born in Virginia, he grew up in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Tennessee, and currently lives in London.
About Hilary Wainwright:
Hilary Wainwright is a founding editor of Red Pepper and research director of the New Politics programme at the Transnational Institute (TNI).
