CHAPTER 40––Itinerant Preacher Jimmy Warburg didn’t have to... (1949)
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- The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book
Freed from financial worry by Polaroid and several other shrewd investments, Jimmy could indulge his preferred maverick role of producing unsparing, irreverent opinions that would provoke and even scandalize Washington. He became a freelance crusader, a wandering troubadour of Democratic liberalism, an “itinerant preacher” of a new foreign policy, as he told Adlai Stevenson.2 When Jimmy won the Gandhi Peace Prize in 1962, Stevenson would hail him as a “public citizen extraordinary” who worked “in the great tradition of the 18th-century pamphleteers.…”3 Jimmy published reams of policy tracts, set a record by publishing more than fifty letters in The New York Times after 1949, spoke at rallies, organized protests, and testified at congressional hearings. By the end, he would publish more than thirty books, as if he were a solo movement, a one-man ministry of state.
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