THE WEEKLY WARRIOR.

I. F. Stone, who spent most of his childhood living upstairs from his immigrant parents' drygoods emporium in Haddonfield, New Jersey, devoted most of his middle age to operating a mom-and-pop store of his own: I. F. Stone's Weekly, the ardent and combative four-page paper, looking much like an eighteenth-century pamphlet, that he published, with the ceaseless help of his wife, Esther, from the small house where they lived in Washington during the fifties and sixties. In the age of the blogger, it takes some effort to understand why Stone, who for much of the nineteen-year run of the Weekly reached an audience not much bigger than twenty thousand, was so important. He has ...