The cultural Cold War : the CIA and the world of arts and letters /
"Many of the period's foremost intellectuals and artists appear in the book: Isaiah Berlin, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Arthur Koestler, Irving Kristol, Robert Lowell, Henry Luce, Andre Malraux, Mary McCarthy, Reinhold Neibuhr, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Pau...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co.,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "Many of the period's foremost intellectuals and artists appear in the book: Isaiah Berlin, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Arthur Koestler, Irving Kristol, Robert Lowell, Henry Luce, Andre Malraux, Mary McCarthy, Reinhold Neibuhr, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Stephen Spender, among others. While many were unwitting participants in the CIA's cultural operation, others were willing collaborators."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Who paid the piper? London : Granta Books, 1999. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | The Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize, 1999. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-480) and index. |
| ISBN: | 156584596X 9781565845961 1565846648 9781565846647 |