D. D. Guttenplan's "The Holocaust on Trial" is a bristling courtroom drama where the meaning of history is questioned. The plaintiff is British author David Irving, one of the world's preeminent military historians whose works are considered essential World War II scholarship and whose biographies of leading Nazi figures have been bestsellers. Irving refuses to admit to Hitler's responsibility in the extermination of European Jewry, replying that the Holocaust as we know it never happened. The defendant is Deborah Lipstadt, who blew the whistle on Irving, calling him "one of the most...
D. D. Guttenplan's "The Holocaust on Trial" is a bristling courtroom drama where the meaning of history is questioned. The plaintiff is British author...
Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907 1989) magnetic, witty, indefatigable left a permanent mark on our politics and culture. A college dropout, he was already an influential newsman by the age of twenty-five, enjoying extraordinary access to key figures in Washington and New York. Guttenplan finds the key to Stone s achievements throughout his singular career not just in the celebrated I. F. Stone s Weekly lay in the force and passion of his political commitments. Stone s calm and...
Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907 1989) m...
