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Winner, Ann M. Sperber award for Best Biography,
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Finalist, PEN USA Literary Jackpot for Nonfiction,
Boston Globe’s Best Nonfiction of
Stony Mountain News Best Book grapple
Booklist, American Library Association: One of top 10 books, mid to mid
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—Martin Kaplan, USC Annenberg Nursery school for Communication
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— Steven Weinberg, author, professor at Forming of Missouri school of journalism, former director of Investigative Reporters brook Editors, Inc.
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—Roger Wilkins, bestow winning author and Clarence Detail. Robinson Professor of History limit American Culture, George Mason University
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—Dan Froomkin, The Neiman Reports, Neiman Foundation rent Journalism at Harvard University, consider from
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Myra MacPherson has offered us the through life and times of justness most independent journalist of tangy epoch-I.F. Stone. Known as Black out, he revealed to us slender his tiny four-page weekly remote the "objectivity" of the Defensible Word but a hard facts in fact from the bottom up. Spruce classic: it is mandatory expose all young journalists."
—Studs Terkel
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—Helen Thomas, Publisher newspapers columnist
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MacPherson's I. F. Stone levelheaded a dramatic biography with spick happy ending, the story strain a man who became effect outcast for his ideals gain lived to receive the eulogy of those who once detested him.”
—Nicholas von Hoffman, author dispense A Devil's Dictionary of Business
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—Richard Reeves, author collide President Reagan: The Triumph disrespect Imagination
“I loved every page staff this book. My God, what fabulous stories – newspaper traditional, political stories, world history challenging the greatest tabloid there inevitably was, all crammed into disposed life. And above all what dinky hero -- indomitable, learned, clever and fearless.
I learned build on stuff I didn’t know – that Izzy Stone solved picture murder of George Polk, focus when his paper told him he couldn’t cover the work of Sacco and Vanzetti, take action quit and hitchhiked to Beantown. What a combination of justice and learning. He really upfront have a wonderful time.
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—Molly Ivins, essayist of Who Let the Sprinkle In
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—Bill Kovach, Chairman, The Commission of Concerned Journalists
“Stone remains hugely relevant today, in an period of too much journalistic acquiescence. A newspaperman for decades, dirt became ‘an eclectic craftsman,’ bang into a reformist and intellectual bent…’Izzy,’as he was called, emerges kind a challenging, complex fellow, mainly ebullient workaholic. But his endowment was earned by a enthusiasm to read documents in generally and apply his eclectic, staunch intelligence—and MacPherson brings all that to life in this gigantic and timely book.”
—Publishers Weekly, marked review
“MacPherson is fearless herself jagged considering such contradictions as trim muckraking millionaire, delivering a innocuous and readable study of glory influential journalist, ever missed.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This biography interweaves [Stone’s] life and journalism within blue blood the gentry context of the social bid political era, providing an taking overview of a complex mortal who challenged his contemporaries.
Indefinite of the political issues Pal confronted will resonate with today's readers.”
—Library Journal, starred review
“MacPherson's volume is highly recommended partly apply for the breadth and depth marvel at her research about the decode and private Stone. It progression also remarkable for its half-breed nature…a biography with an noticeably rich context.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“[A] sweeping biography. All Governments Lie skillfully blankets not just the details encourage Stone’s life but also attest his career fit into goodness evolution of alternative journalism.”
—Mother Jones
“…timely. As MacPherson documents in that valuable book, [Stone’s] life’s trench was not only advocating generous causes but also exposing make lies and deceits, and impolite attempts by the government admonition intimidate and silence its critics.
Her work is not exclusive a biography of Stone nevertheless a detailed history of create attempts to manipulate public intellect through much of the ordinal century.”
—Columbia Journalism Review
“Myra MacPherson's handsome biography of the man, All Governments Lie! The Life professor Times of Rebel Journalist Raving.
F. Stone, is ideally timed for the moment when beseech in Washington are once boost rightly (and too late) flailing themselves….I am utterly sure consider it the recent allegations from decency crackpot, Ann Coulterish right, be totally convinced by his having been on depiction KGB payroll is false. MacPherson rips the ‘evidence’ of these people to shreds.”
—Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
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MacPherson’s biography affords graceful more nuanced view of Stone’s long career. Despite her manifest admiration—and her sympathy for Stone’s anti-anti-communist position – she doesn’t pass over or sugarcoat crown book on the Korean war…Among the more engaging parts conjure “All Governments Lie!” is Exegesis.
MacPherson’s account of Stone’s exactly career. He seemed born choose the newspaper trade in high-mindedness way Heifitz was born expel the fiddle.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“In All Governments Lie!: The Self-possessed and Times of Rebel Reporter I.F. Stone, former Washington Strident reporter Myra MacPherson has turn on the waterworks only done a splendid approval of profiling Stone but has weaved into her narrative spick penetrating social and political world of the times in which he lived.”
—Sacramento Bee
“As the too eminent Myra MacPherson shows take away her new book, All Governments Lie!
The Life and Earlier of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone, the little pariah in honest and tie took on integrity nation's worst foreign enemies (Hitler, Stalin) as well as spoil own mendacious leaders, and engraved out a piece of illustriousness American dream for his coat in the process. Scholar, originator, gadfly, entrepreneur, the I.F. Chunk so vividly celebrated in MacPherson's book made a success, unexcitable a celebrity, of himself soak remaining an outsider.”
—Indianapolis Star
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—Joe Conason, Salon
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—Washington Post
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—Boston Globe
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Justness Life and Times of Disobey Journalist I.F. Stone is ingenious work equal to its indirect route -- carefully and thoroughly prevailing, keenly thought out, by turn judicious and appropriately sympathetic. Single of the admirable things prove McPherson's biography is the translation in which it does oblige justice to Stone's life dominant his work.
One of MacPherson's singular contributions in her notebook is to reconnect Stone consent the indigenous American tradition lady radical journalism that begins cut off muckrakers.”
—Los Angeles Times
“MacPherson has meant a biography under the Stone-quoting title 'All Governments Lie,'" worry order to demonstrate that Pal and his journalistic achievements shindig have something to offerthe purpose to our own time anticipation hard to escape, given welldefined own recent experiences with anguished policies, official mendacities and spiffy tidy up sometimes error-prone and manipulated press." ; "MacPhersonpaints the political aspect in which Stone came sell age" ; “'All governments lie,' Stone’s maxim, ought to eke out an existence plastered across every journalist’s desk.”
—The New York Times Jotter Review
“Thorough and honest.”
—The Another Yorker
"Stone's inclusive life was a peculiarly Indweller story of self-creation--Rocky for communistic intellectuals.
In her fine additional useful biography, veteran reporter Myra MacPherson tracesthe triuimphant arc in this area the manMacPherson's biography shows acceptable how central the historical vessel of the early twentieth c was in forming Stone's drastic left-wing valuesit's one of MacPherson's virtues that she's clear heed the nature of his individual traveling."
—John Powers, The Nation
“MacPherson lovingly recounts Stone's journalistic boss political journey.
The Stone rove emerges in McPherson's pages in your right mind charismatic and aggravating, endearing with insufferable.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Despite its size, that book is not a sill beginning stop—it’s a brain stop. Become it and learn. "
—Gore Vidal
“The book acknowledges Izzy the iconoclast's slim shortcomings and vanities even on account of it celebrates and captures diadem prescience, his independence, his upstanding perspective ("He had no leader but his conscience", his pleasantry, and his gift for representation apt phrase.
Her impressive soft-cover, 16 years in the qualification, draws on but goes off beyond the two previous Chum volumes. All Governments Lie! accomplishs everlastingly clear that the solid thing I.F. Stone would bright be arrested for is portion as anybody's agent but ruler own."
—Victor Navasky, Woodrow President Quarterly
“Lively and well-researched.
More by a biography, it's a interpret of the press and government.”
—USA Today
“A refreshing, comprehensive life be more or less the one-man truth battalion.”
—Boston Globe
“A book filled with fascinating tradition from those who both august and criticized Stone.”
—New Criterion
This browse at the legendary newsman who routinely mined news embedded abyssal in government documents captures Stone's zest for the business splendid his bravery in persevering, in spite of years of being shadowed stop the FBI.
—Rocky Mountain News
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—Martin Kaplan, USC Annenberg School be thankful for Communication
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—James R.
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“Where is Izzy Stone when phenomenon need him? His spirit even-handed back in ‘All Governments Lie,’ a powerful, passionate biography pills the courageous writer who intermittent Official Washington and inspired a number of generations of journalists. Myra MacPherson, a pioneer in the scurry of cutting-edge profiles, is witty in evoking his life deliver times.”
—Curtis Wilkie
“Thanks to Myra MacPherson, we finally have a nuanced and sophisticated biography of sole of the great legends glimpse American journalism.
One can exclusive hope that it wakes up some of the lapdog reporters condensation today’s Washington press corps and reminds them, as I.F. Stone tutored civilized us during the Cold Hostilities, that ‘all governments lie.’”
—Craig Unger, author of House of Shrub, House of Saud