The Cultural Cold War

by Saunders, Frances Stonor

• ISBN13: 9781565846647
• ISBN10: 1565846648
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

In addition to being short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award upon publication in 2000, Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War was met with the kind of attention reserved for books that directly hit a cultural nerve. Impassioned reviews and features in major publications such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have consistently praised Saunders's detailed knowledge of the CIA's covert operations. The Cultural Cold War presents for the first time shocking evidence of cultural manipulation during the Cold War. This "impressively detailed" (Kirkus Reviews) book draws together newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign wherein some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom became instruments of the American government. Those involved included George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Gloria Steinem. The result is "a tale of intrigue and betrayal, with scene after scene as thrilling as any in a John Le Carre novel" (The Chronicle of Higher Education).8 pages of black-and-white photographs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	1	(6)
Exquisite Corpse	7	(25)
Destiny's Elect	32	(13)
Marxists at the Waldorf	45	(12)
Democracy's Deminform	57	(16)
Crusading's the Idea	73	(12)
`Operation Congress'	85	(20)
Candy	105	(8)
Cette Fete Americaine	113	(16)
The Consortium	129	(17)
The Truth Campaign	146	(11)
The New Consensus	157	(8)
Magazine 'X'	165	(25)
The Holy Willies	190	(23)
Music and Truth, ma non troppo	213	(21)
Ransom's Boys	234	(18)
Yanqui Doodles	252	(27)
The Guardian Furies	279	(23)
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle	302	(12)
Achilles' Heel	314	(13)
Cultural NATO	327	(17)
Caesar of Argentina	344	(15)
Pen Friends	359	(10)
Literary Bay of Pigs	369	(12)
View from the Ramparts	381	(10)
That Sinking Feeling	391	(16)
A Bad Bargain	407	(10)
Epilogue	417	(11)
Notes and Sources	428	(48)
Select Bibliography	476	(5)
Index	481