BOOKS
The Next Republic
The Rise of a New Radical Majority
"It’s high time that someone resurrected authentic “populism,” activism from below, and showed how it can be the path to a better future. That’s done very convincingly in D.D. Guttenplan's fine book, The Next Republic: The Rise of a New Radical Majority, introducing us along the way to some wonderful people and their achievements, interspersed with carefully executed and pertinent historical interludes. A timely and instructive call to action."
—Noam Chomsky
"At a moment when history and truth are under attack, and the survival of our republic is once again in doubt, The Next Republic is a timely, humane and forceful narrative of our insurgent political moment — and a deeply reported contribution to the fight for a progressive future in America."
—Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor & Publisher, The Nation
"Don Guttenplan has written a profoundly subversive book. At a moment when Trumpism, cynicism and corruption seem to reign supreme in our politics, he has made a compelling case for hope and optimism about the future of our democracy, and en passant he has put the meaning of our republic in its historical context."
—Victor S. Navasky
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The Nation: A Biography
(The First 150 Years)
The Nation: A Biography tells the surprising story behind America's oldest weekly magazine, instigator of progress since 1865—the bickering abolitionists who founded it; the campaigns, causes and controversies that shaped it; the rebels, mavericks and visionaries who have written, edited and fought in its pages for 150 years and counting.
The story of The Nation is also the story of our country—and our movement. Entertaining as well as inspiring, Guttenplan's history of The Nation is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand where we came from—and how to continue the march toward a radical future.
"Here's to The Nation on its 150th birthday," historian Eric Foner writes in the introduction. "This book makes clear why we should hope that the country's oldest weekly magazine survives for at least another century and a half."
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American Radical
The Life and Times of I.F. Stone
"Prodigious research and a grateful heart inform this essential biography of an irreplaceable journalist."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“I. F. Stone is an inspiration to anyone who worries about the collapse of big newspapers with big budgets.”
—Norman Pearlstine
"Don Guttenplan's brilliant biography of I. F. Stone is a wonderfully vivid portrait of a courageous journalist who exposed the follies of American policy in Vietnam. It is also an acutely observed, clear-eyed account of the dilemmas faced by the American Left from the days of the Popular Front, through the McCarthy era, to the challenges of the civil-rights movement and the New Left, giving us an indispensable analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of American radicalism.”
—Anthony J. Badger, author of FDR: The First Hundred Days
In the midst of an economic crisis and a long and unjustified war, with many urgent questions about our society and politics unanswered, and with the landscape of journalism rapidly changing, it is the perfect time to reconsider Stone’s life and achievements. As The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland writes, “This is the right book, at the right time, from the right author.”
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The Holocaust on Trial
“The most informed, disinterested account of this significant proceeding as we are likely to get.”
—Kirkus Reviews
The account of a trial in which the very meaning of the Holocaust was put on the stand.
D. D. Guttenplan's The Holocaust on Trial is a bristling courtroom drama where the meaning of history is questioned. The plaintiff is British author David Irving, one of the world's preeminent military historians whose works are considered essential World War II scholarship and whose biographies of leading Nazi figures have been bestsellers. Irving refuses to admit to Hitler's responsibility in the extermination of European Jewry, replying that the Holocaust as we know it never happened.
The defendant is Deborah Lipstadt, who blew the whistle on Irving, calling him "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." Irving sued for libel, and under English law, it was up to Lipstadt to prove the truth of her writings, and the falseness of Irving's views. 4 pages of b/w photographs.