The Best of I.F. Stone

by I. F. Stone

  United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

  LaGuardia and

  United Press

  United States

  debate over atomic disarmament and

  entry into World War IIby,

  roots of Cold War and

  United States Constitution

  UNRRA.

  See United Nations

  Relief and

  Rehabilitation

  Administration Urban League

  U.S. Air Force in Korea,

  The (Futrell

  Moseley, and

  Simpson)

  U.S. Naval Academy

  U.S. News & World Report,

  U.S. Strategic Bombing

  Survey

  USSR.

  See Soviet Union UThant

  Vann, Colonel John Paul

  V-E Day

  Viet Cong

  Vietnam era, in defense of campus rebels during

  Vietnam War

  Americas failure in

  Johnson and

  Pentagon Papers and

  Richard Nixon and

  Robert F. Kennedy and

  Stones report from Saigon

  Tonkin Bay incidents and

  Westmoreland’s presentation on

  Vilner, Meir

  Vinson, Chief Justice

  Voice of America

  Von Hartman, Julius

  Wade, Andrew

  Wagner Act

  Wallace, George

  Wallace, Henry , y Wallace, James N.

  Wall Between, The (Braden) Stone’s review of

  Wall Street Journal

  Walsh, Edmund A.

  War, global consciousness and prevention of

  Warbey, William

  War Department

  War Manpower Commission

  Warne, Robert

  War Production Board

  (WPB)

  War Refugee Board

  Warren, Chief Justice Earl

  War Years, (Stone)

  Washington, Star, The

  Washington Post

  Pentagon Papers and

  Watad, Mohammad

  Wechsler, James

  Weimar Republic

  Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi

  Westmoreland, General

  William

  Wheeler, Burton K.

  White, Hugh

  White Paper (British)

  Wilhelm II

  Willkie, Wendell, Williams, Tennessee

  Wilson, Charlie

  Wilson, Richard

  World War I

  World War II

  calls for relaxation of U.S. war production efforts during,

  end of

  mobilization of American war production for,

  "second front" in,

  U.S. entry into

  Worthy, William

  Wright, Moses

  Yaari, Meir

  York

  Young, Earl

  Zangwill, Israel

  Zionism

  Zionist ideology,

  reexamining

  Zwicker affair

  PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.

  I.F. STONE, proprietor of. I. F. Stone’s Weekly, combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published The Trial of Socrates, which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.

  BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of The Washington Post. It was Ben who gave the Post the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.

  ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation’s premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.

  For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1,500 other authors. In 1983, Schnapper was described by The Washington Post as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.

  Peter Osnos, Founder and Editor-at-Large