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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Main Author: Saunders, Frances Stonor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.
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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.
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