General Information

Author/Creator

Sussman, Leonard R.

Language

English.

Published

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

Physical Description

432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Sussman, Leonard R. > Friends and associates.

Sussman, Leonard R. > Political and social views.

Freedom House (U.S.)

Intellectuals > United States > Biography.

Scholars > United States > Biography.

Biography > 20th century.

Liberty.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Leonard R. Sussman.

Content

Introduction: Walk on the Midway -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Walks at Home. My Father and the Saint -- Al Salt: Growing Up on the Seventh Floor -- Muriel Rukeyser: Poet in the Family -- "Dr. Bill": Restorer of Hands and Faith -- Inga Arvad: Our Spy; and Jack Kennedy's -- Religion, the Middle East, and Freedom House -- Theodor Gaster, Anthropologist-Matchmaker -- The Hunters: A Sterling Family's Visit from the Feds -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The "Lone Ranger" and the "Tiger" -- Senator Fulbright's "Accidents" -- Khaki and Blonde -- Part Two: Walks in the World. The Not-So-Small World of Ithiel Pool -- Angel Ramos: Cablese at War -- Luis Mu-oz Marin: Social Revolutionary -- Wendell Willkie: One World, One Life -- Francis Miller: Warhawk of World War II -- Alexander Bickel: The "Middle Distance" -- Bayard Rustin: Builder of the King Legend -- Frances Grant and the Guerrillas -- Sidney Hook: Philosopher with Rolled-up Sleeves -- Charles Frankel: Intellect in Politics -- Edward Shils: The Personal "Soul," Privacy, and the CIA -- Needed: Intelligent Intelligence -- Andrei Amalrik: Death of a Prophet -- Leopold Labedz: Cold Warrior Supreme -- Nomavenda Mathiane: Black Woman Journalist in Apartheid South Africa -- Helen Suzman: "First Lady" of South Africa -- Percy Qoboza, Kow Bonzie Brown, and the Heart of a Journalist -- Allard Lowenstein: Political Rocket, Falling Star -- Marie-Elaine and the Slave-Hold of Senegal -- Ludovick Ngatara: Dangerous Journalism -- Muhammad Abdel Gawad: Mystery Journalist of Egypt -- The Press of "Tomorrow" in Vietnam -- Aristedes Katoppo: Ghost in the City Room -- Mahathir Mohamad: Prime Minister as Editor -- Kim Sang-Man: Press Freedom, Asian Style -- Raul Manglapus: From Correspondent to Foreign Minister -- Sergei Grigoryants: From Gulag to Typewriter -- Paul Anastasi and the Death of Pravda -- Humberto and Gloria Rubin: In Defense of Radio Nanduti -- No to Pinochet -- NWICO, Part One: Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow -- NWICO, Part Two: Turnabout in Guyana -- Kaarle Nordenstreng: NWICO Point Man -- Yuri Baturin of the Kremlin -- Milovan Djilas: Half a Life in Prison or in Disgrace -- Springtime in China -- Margaret Chase Smith: The Conscience and the Rose -- Eugene Wigner: "Why Didn't You Tell Us?" -- Jonas Savimbi: From the Killing Field to Park Avenue -- The Dalai Lama and the Talit -- Lucia Thorne and the Mujahadeen -- Aisha Seytmuratova: The Diminutive Tatar -- Isaam Sartawi: He Knew His Assassin -- Afterword: Astronaut Sussman -- Appendices. A Survey of the Progress of Freedom in 1968; the Critical Year -- President Reagan at the White House before His Icelandic Summit with Gorbachev -- Bayard Rustin on the Civil Rights Movement: An Unpublished Interview.

ISBN

1591021421

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	920.073/09/04 SUS		Reference	Pages 145-192 are missing.

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