The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession--but such freedom...
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Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Saunders, Frances Stonor

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

¥5,468

The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

¥5,468
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Format: Paperback
Language: English
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession--but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA--whether they knew it or not.

Called the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967 by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work--now with a new preface by the author--is a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781595589149

About the Author
Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of The Devil's Broker and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini. She has worked as the arts editor of the New Statesman; writes and presents for BBC radio; and has written for Areté, The Guardian, Lapham's Quarterly, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in London.

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