Books
March, 1988
I. F. Stone was the great muckraking journalist of the Fifties and Sixties. Operating without benefit of syndication or a sponsoring newspaper, he published his own Weekly, in which he regularly scooped the country's major news media not by the derring-do detectivework of Woodward and Bernstein but by a close, skeptical reading of such dry-as-dust sources as the Congressional Record and other publicly available material. You could call it the Purloined Letter, or hidden-in-plain-sight, school of...
