Frances Stonor Saunders The Cultural Cold War (Paperback) For Sale

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Title: The Cultural Cold War
Condition: New
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: The New Press
Subtitle: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
ISBN-10: 1595589147
EAN: 9781595589149
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781595589149
Edition: Second Edition
Release Date: 11/21/2013
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Topic: Arts & Photography, Law & Politics
Description: 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.
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 638g
Release Year: 2013

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