This event. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome to the smithsonian tony, australian born perpetual explorer, travel, writer and author of six books including napoleons privates 21 years of history unzipped, the centers grand tour, a journey through the underbelly of europe, and most recently the improbable revolution that changed world history. As a College Student tony regularly disappeared to hitchhike through the outback and travel through rural india where he briefly enjoyed an inglorious career as a film extra. Based in the east village of manhattan he makes it a point to continue exploring in iceland, beijing, tasmania to name a few. Tonys travel stories have been published in magazines like the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine and have been translated into a dozen languages having been selected 7 times for the best American Travel writing series. Hes also a regular television guest on the History Channel where he has spoken about everything from the crusades to the bir
[pledge of allegiance]. We have had the fortune of having Many Political journalists and the broadcast see here over the years but the one we have with us tonight has covered six us residents beginning with president reagan. And speaking of president reagan, for the first interviews back in 2002 when he and a handful of other experts came out to the Reagan Library share stories about president reagan and our air force one number 27,000, stories we use to make our visitors experience and our air force one civilians that much more rich. Since then hes come 2 other times to discuss and find copies of his book is of the white house in 2013 and ultimate insider, white house photographers and how they shape history 2000 since hes been covering the white house since 1986, im sure he has no lack of material for many more books, especially says today he continues to provide insightinto the white house of donald trump and the world of president ial campaigns. Perhaps if were lucky youll share so
Working for pm we should talk a little but i will talk about that. The great investigative journalist i have stone remains the template for what journalism should be he was a fearless opponent of mccarthyism and the scourge of official liars as d. D. Gotten planned puts it in his biography of stone he did what few in his profession could he always thought for himself couldnt plan argues that the key to stones achievements throughout his singular career not just in the celebrated eye of stones weekly lay in the forests and passion of his political commitments he would become one of the best known journalists in the country and then because of the ferocity of his integrity and refusal to be cowed by the hysteria and witch hunts over communism a pariah he was placed under daily surveillance his passport was not renewed and he was blacklisted even the nation. Agonising would not give him a job at the age of 44. 00 he wrote that is total marginalisation made him feel like a ghost his career
Stones weekly lay in the force and passion of his political commitments he would become one of the best known journalists in the country and then because of the ferocity of his integrity and refusal to be cowed by the hysteria and witch hunts over communism a pariah he was placed under daily surveillance his passport was not renewed and he was blacklisted even the nation magazine would not give him a job at the age of 44. 00 he wrote that is total marginalisation made him feel like a ghost his career is a poignant reminder that moral autonomy and independence traits stone had in abundance comes with a price that is a primer on what constitutes great reporting in an age when celebrity gossip and trivia are passed off as news joining me in the studio to discuss i. F. Stone and his legacy is. Gotten planned author of american radical the life and times of stone 1st of all this is a brilliant biography you produced a masterpiece and if people havent read it they need to buy it its a stunni
His legacy is d. D. Gotten plan author of american radical the life and times of stone 1st of all this is a brilliant biography you produced a masterpiece and if people havent read it they need to buy it its a stunning and its a little tough now its so much more than the life of stone well it says something about the culture the important about the culture about journalism about the moral life and its its beautifully written but set us up who was i have stuff so i have stone was the son of jewish immigrants hill adelphia he was born in philadelphia a 97 in sort of tenement neighborhood but importantly grew up in haddonfield their jersey so a rural town where like a lot of jewish immigrants his parents kept the shop all over him. There are all towns where theres one jewish family and they kept the shop and his parents were that family in haddonfield new jersey so that meant that he didnt grow up you know in an urban setting he didnt grow up in the Lower East Side he grew up with a kind