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Boasting equal parts scholarship and style,'All Governments Lie'is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of America's most independent and revered journalists, whose work carries the same immediacy it did almost a half century ago, highlighting the ever-present need for dissenting voices. In the world of Washington political journalism, notorious for trading independence for access, I. F.'Izzy'Stone was so unique as to be a genuine wonder. Always skeptical --'All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out,'he memorably quipped -- Stone was ahead of the pack on the most pivotal twentieth-century trends: the rise of Hitler and Fascism, disastrous Cold War foreign policies, covert actions of the FBI and CIA, the greatness of the Civil Rights movement, the horror of Vietnam, the strengths and weaknesses of the antiwar movement, the disgrace of Iran-contra, and the class greed of Reaganomics. His constant barrage against J. Edgar Hoover earned him close monitoring by the FBI from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War, and even an investigation for espionage during the fifties. Af

Author

Myra MacPherson

Publisher

New York: Scribner

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781416556794

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.78 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13