He marketed himself. They spread the word. Both made out like bandits.
Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin wrote about the Chicago events for the Ramparts Wallposter during the Democratic Convention; and later in his book The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; and then again, exercising his own fiction-making license, in the novel The Opposition, to be published in 2021 by Guernica Editions. In Chicago, when Tom Hayden, bailed out of jail, went undercover, it was Todd Gitlin who purchased his fake goatee.
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Swept Away in the Sixties
What did the era amount to? One thing is certain: It wasn’t a revolution.
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I.F. Stone, Journalist — and Spy?
Was “Pancake” working with the KGB? The evidence is inconclusive.
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Times Out of Joint
Last summer, I made the mistake of asking a Los Angeles Times reporter how he felt about life in a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tribune Company. He made a sour face and said he was worried about his pension. Dinner was ruined for a while. Reporters are used to holding their breath at the […]
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OUTRAGE ON THE DEFAMATION FRONT.
OUTRAGE ON THE DEFAMATION FRONT. Just to elaborate on the story Ezra mentioned: The NYU historian Tony Judt was invited to speak October 3 on the subject of �The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy� to a discussion group entitled Network 20/20, which always holds its meetings at Manhattan�s Polish Consulate. But Judt received […]
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All the President’s Pets
Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush by Eric Boehlert (Free Press, 352 pages, $25.00) It will come as no surprise to readers of these pages that the galloping pack of Washington journalists has spent much of the last five and a half years rolling over for an alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) […]
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The Harder He Blows
Chris Matthews blows hard. This may sound less like a news flash than a crashing redundancy. And it’s true that yelling is nothing new for the omnipresent MSNBC/CNBC barking head, for whom picking up the pace and pumping up the volume almost always substitute for picking apart the fairy tales that keep the Bush White […]
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The Harder He Blows
Chris Matthews blows hard. This may sound less like a news flash than a crashing redundancy. And it’s true that yelling is nothing new for the omnipresent MSNBC/CNBC barking head, for whom picking up the pace and pumping up the volume almost always substitute for picking apart the fairy tales that keep the Bush White […]
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All the President’s Friends
“Like most people at the times,” New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told a Princeton gathering on November 14, “I am suffering from a serious case of Judy Miller fatigue.” Aren’t we all? But before we succumb, a deeper look would be timely. The Miller case turns out to be part of an epidemic […]
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All The President’s Friends
“Like most people at the times,” New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told a Princeton gathering on November 14, “I am suffering from a serious case of Judy Miller fatigue.” Aren’t we all? But before we succumb, a deeper look would be timely. The Miller case turns out to be part of an epidemic […]