Witness to a Century : Encounters with the Noted, the Notorious, and the Three SOBs

"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too. " --Columbia Journalism Review Includes material on Leon Trotsky, Isadora Duncan, John Reed, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, William Jennings Bryan, Emma Goldman, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Tito, Benito Mussolini, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ralph Nader