The cultural cold war : the CIA and the world of arts and letters
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Published
New York : New Press, [2013].
Physical Desc
xvii, 427 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
327.1409 SAUNDE 2013
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327.1409 SAUNDE 2013
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Arts -- Political aspects -- United States.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
Freedom and art -- Political aspects -- United States.
Politics and culture -- United States.
United States -- Cultural policy.
United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Influence.
Arts, American -- 20th century.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
Freedom and art -- Political aspects -- United States.
Politics and culture -- United States.
United States -- Cultural policy.
United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Influence.
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Published
New York : New Press, [2013].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: Who paid the piper? London : Granta books, 1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-404) and index.
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. Book jacket.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Saunders, F. S. (2013). The cultural cold war: the CIA and the world of arts and letters . New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Saunders, Frances Stonor. 2013. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters New Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Saunders, Frances Stonor. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters New Press, 2013.
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