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Muckraker
By Studs Terkel
James Weinstein: The Legacy
Not a Dead Ender
By G. William Domhoff
Old Terrain, New Insights
By Ron Radosh
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Creative Devotion
By David Moberg
Unapologetic Radical
By Laura Washington
The Historian We Need
By Michael Kazin
Guts and Tenacity
By Scott McLemee
Ambiguious Legacy
By James B. Gilbert
Throw Off the Saddles and Dare to Think By Edward "Buzz" Palmer
Last Request By Melissa Byrne
To a Friend
By Adrian Bleifuss Prados
Jim Weinstein was a shining example of a truly independent journalist. In his own way, he was in the tradition of George Seldes and I.F. Stone and Lincoln Steffens—muckraking journalists who challenged the received wisdom. He always asked “Why?” and “Who is behind what?” and “Where are the bodies buried?” More than ever, we need journalists such as Jim, who insisted that we must think things through, that we must remember the past in order to understand the present and prepare for the future.
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