American muck-raker

摘要

The prediction that Isador Feinstein Stone, America's most celebrated investigative journalist, made to his wife proved right. "Honey", he told her, "I'm going to graduate from a pariah to a character, and then if I live long enough I'll be regarded as a national institution." He lived long enough. By the time he died in 1989 at the age of 81,I.F. "Izzy" Stone was embraced by a political and media establishment that had shunned him in his prime as, in his words, "a Red Jew son-of-a-bitch".