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I.F. Stone: The Case for the Press in a Democracy

November 4, 2009

D. D. Guttenplan writer

Christopher Lydon former radio host, The Connection

Journalist D. D. Guttenplan discusses his new biography of iconic independent journalist I.F. Stone, American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, which illuminates Stone’s career in light of the current seismic shift in the shape of news-gathering and distribution systems world wide.

Topics: Art & Architecture | Culture & Identity | History | Literature & Philosophy | Media & Technology

Tags: anti-war movement | Authors | Biographies | Great Depression | independent journalism | Print | Ronald Reagan | Journalists | Non-Fiction | Writing Process | North American

Presented By WGBH and Cambridge Forum:

Cambridge Forum

Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I

CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol

Cynthia Lopez: WAM! 2009 Keynote

Cynthia Lopez, vice president of American Documentary's P.O.V., delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference.

Thomas Ricks: General Petraeus and the American Military in Iraq

Thomas E. Ricks

Washington Post correspondent Thomas E. Ricks discusses his newly in paperback exploration of the Iraq war, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq.

Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Nation: Part I

R. Nicholas Burns

Media’s Mixed Messages to Women

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett discuss current research on women and work, which finds that the mass media proliferates messaging that is in extreme conflict with the reality of women's lives.

SuperFreakonomics

Journalist Stephen Dubner discusses SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.

American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone

Author: D. D. Guttenplan

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages

The Holocaust on Trial

Author: D. D. Guttenplan

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (2002)

Binding: Paperback, 352 pages

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