Underground to Palestine [First Edition]
درباره این ای-کتاب
“I can only record as a reporter what I saw and heard, traveling with the least fortunate but the bravest of my people,” says the author.
But I. F. Stone is not an ordinary reporter. He has the sincerity and the art to tell what he saw convincingly, without embellishments, yet losing none of its dramatic intensity.
Simple folk and scholars, the tough and the gentle, crowed these pages; and in the author’s vivid portrayal they become people you have known. Their stories—tragedies which have destroyed all but the lucky remnants, or comedies which lighten even the most unfortunate—take on in reading the reality of events you have actually seen.
The author’s underground journey took him from France into Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, and through the Mediterranean to Haifa. His account of that adventure is a gripping narrative, a record of historic value, and a story of dramatic force.
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I. F. Stone (1907-1989) was a politically radical American investigative journalist and writer. He is best remembered for the newsletter, I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953-1971), which was ranked in 16th place among "The Top 100 Works of Journalism in the United States in the 20th Century" by New York University's journalism department in 1999, and in second place among print journalism publications. He was born Isidor Feinstein in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1907, adopting the initials and adding the surname Stone at age 30. As a child, his family moved to nearby Haddonfield, New Jersey, where his parents, Bernard Feinstein and Katherine Novack, Jewish immigrants from Russia, owned a dry goods store. Stone read widely and favored works by Walt Whitman and Jack London. He made his journalistic debut at age 14 with a neighborhood monthly called The Progress, which featured liberal editorials. He then worked as a reporter on The Haddonfield Press and The Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post. Stone studied philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania while editing and rewriting articles full time at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Although he dropped out of college in his junior year, the university awarded him a B.A. degree in 1975, making him an official member of the class of 1928. Through the years, he also received many honorary doctorates. He was briefly a member of the Socialist Party, wrote editorials for The New York Post, was an associate editor and then Washington editor of The Nation, and then wrote for PM, The New York Star and the New York Daily Compass. Following the demise of these three left-of-center New York dailies, he began publishing his newsletter I. F. Stone's Weekly, which had reached 70,000 subscribers when it halted publication in December 1971. In later years, Mr. Stone wrote for The New York Review of Books and occasionally for The Nation. He died in Boston, Massachusetts on June 18, 1989, aged 81.
