The Washington Post, June 20th, 1989
I.F.-Izzie-Stone, the journalist, pamphleteer, political junkie and student of the Greek classics who died the other day at the age of 81, never got an even break from the folks who described him-and they were many. It seemed as though Mr. Stone, a prodigiously energetic and deeply serious man, was always either being slandered by his enemies on the right or canonized by his admirers on the left. Neither saw the man as he was, and in some ways the canonizers did him more of a disservice than his savage political enemies did: they described a mythologized, unreal man and thus failed to pay resp...
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