General Information

Uniform Title

Who paid the piper?

Author/Creator

Saunders, Frances Stonor, author.

Language

English.

Published

New York, NY : The New Press, 2013.

Physical Description

xvii, 427 p. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

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 Cultural Cold War 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 Berstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. .

Subjects

Subject

United States. Central Intelligence Agency > Influence.

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.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Frances Stonor Saunders.

Note

Originally published under title: Who paid the piper? : the CIA and the cultural cold war London : Granta Books, 1999.

ISBN

9781595589149

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	327.1/4/097309 SAU		Reference	Donation of Katalin Székely.

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