Frances Stonor Saunders
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracyâ€™s most cherished possessionâ€”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 CIAâ€”whether they knew it or not.,Called â€œthe most comprehensive account yet of the [CIAâ€™s] activities between 1947 and 1967â€ by the ,New York Times,, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIAâ€™s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIAâ€™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 workâ€”now with a new preface by the authorâ€”is â€œa real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar periodâ€ (,The Wall Street Journal,), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters