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Saint IzzyThe tiresome canonizing of I.F. Stone.

By David OshinskyUpdated Monday, June 22, 2009, at 6:57 AM ET

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David Oshinsky holds the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas and is a distinguished scholar in residence at New York University. His books include A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy.

Photograph of I.F. Stone from Wikimedia Commons.

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That you can read his columns from 40 or 50 years ago and feel the life in them, the way that they evoke how people felt at the time is a marvel. So were his biggest scoops. Take the USSR: I read Stone's record of a visit there in the 1950s, the first time he had been there. He was fascinated and open-minded, concluding, "this is not a good society and it is not led by honest men." I read that 30 years ago and still remember it.

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