Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
Author:
Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher:
Granta Books
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Paperback
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Publishing Date:
2000
Number of Pages:
509
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English
Condition:
New
During the Cold War, writers and artists faced a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified militancy, struggle, and relentless optimism. In the West, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession. But such freedom could carry a cost. This book documents the extraordinary energy of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West became instruments – whether they knew it or not, whether they liked it or not – of America’s Secret Service.