• Eyewitness to History: Memoirs and Reflections of a Foreign Correspondent Isaac Don Levine

    This memoir is increasingly grating in its Sunday-morning pulpit anti-Communism, and disappointing in failing to convey the climates and events that distinguish the work of first-rate reporters. Levine describes his immigration to the U.S. as a young Russian Jew in 1911, and his success in getting back behind the Civil War front to write relatively unbiased news about the Revolution -- he was anti-Bolshevik but also opposed to the allied intervention. A long section is then devoted to the ""atrocious regicide"" of the Czar's family. From a gossipy review of people met (Mrs. Trotsky, an argument with Lincoln Steffens about Mussolini,…

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