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Foreword.(FINAL ISSUE 1924-2006)
January 1, 2006... Historically "small" magazines--small in their circulation, small in their life expectancy--have played an influential role in the whirligig known as the United States of America. The Dial (1840-1844), for example, hardly attained 300 subscribers and lasted four years. But its editors...

Introduction.(FINAL ISSUE 1924-2006)(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... The headline on Charles McGrath's adroit New York Times feature story (January 23) reporting THE NEW LEADER'S imminent demise read: "A Liberal Beacon Burns Out." Responding to the news, Sanford Lakoff, a political scientist at the University of California's San Diego campus, saw it as "one...

The early years.(Learning History Firsthand)(The New Leader)
January 1, 2006... I BEGAN WRITING for THE NEW LEADER in 1938, at age 19, when I was a senior at the City College of New York. I continued to do so during the next two years, while a graduate student at Columbia University. In 1940 I joined the two-man staff as a writer, and a little over a year later, at age...

The Cold War fifties.(Analyzing a Divided World)
January 1, 2006... WHEN I came to work at THE NEW LEADER as an associate editor in February 1949, shortly after graduating from the City College of New York, neither the publication nor the Rand School building that housed its offices was unfamiliar to me. As a student, I had attended lectures at the school by...

Appointment with destiny.(A Dissident's Tale)
January 1, 2006... BELGRADE THIS IS HOW it all started. In June 1964, under a cultural exchange program between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, I went to Moscow and Leningrad for five weeks and a professor from Moscow University came to Belgrade. At the time, I was an assistant professor of modern Russian...