Who Paid The Piper? :The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

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Who Paid The Piper?

Who Paid The Piper? :The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

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During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with 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.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781862073272
ISBN10 1862073279
Number Of Pages 544
Item Weight 400 g
Product Dimensions 129 x 198 x 34 mm
Publisher / Reseller Granta Books
Format paperback
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Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordinarily good book and I do recommend it to anyone who's remotely interested in the period -- Ian McEwan, author of Sweet Tooth * BBC Radio 4 *
This is the fascinating story of the vast post-war Kulturkampf, the Cold War conflict over cultural values and ideologies amid which several literary and cultural generations grew up ... a crucial story about the dangerous, compromising energies and manipulation of an entire and a very recent age -- Malcolm Bradbury * The Times *
A major work of investigative history -- Edward W. Said
Absorbing, distressing and at times uproariously funny * Observer *
Francis Stonor Saunders has written a hammer blow of a book, definitely establishing the facts of the CIA's activities ... Her research is formidable, her tone tenacious, her eye for a titbit vivid, her sense of humour lively. * Spectator *
Stories of high level espionage... disturbing disclosures and a literary style of enviable sharpness and wit are some of the ingredients to be relished in this marvellously readable account -- The Literary Review
Saunders chronicles this entire story with both verve and an astonishing attention to detail ... an interesting and unexpected cultural history of our age * UK Kirkus *

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Author's Bio

Frances Stonor Saunders lives in London. She is the author of Hawkwood and Who Paid the Piper? - a history of the cultural cold war that has been translated into many languages.

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