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Document Type: | Book |
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Frances Stonor Saunders |
ISBN: | 156584596X 9781565845961 1565846648 9781565846647 |
OCLC Number: | 43114251 |
Notes: | Originally published: Who paid the piper? London : Granta Books, 1999. |
Awards: | The Royal Historical Society Gladstone History Book Prize, 1999. |
Description: | ix, 509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Exquisite Corpse -- Destiny's Elect -- Marxists at the Waldorf -- Democracy's Deminform -- Crusading's the Idea -- 'Operation Congress' -- Candy -- Cette Fete Americaine -- The Consortium -- The Truth Campaign -- The New Consensus -- Magazine 'X' -- The Holy Willies -- Music and Truth, ma non troppo -- Ransom's Boys -- Yanqui Doodles -- The Guardian Furies -- When Shrimps Learn to Whistle -- Achilles' Heel -- Cultural NATO -- Caesar of Argentina -- Pen Friends -- Literary Bay of Pigs -- View from the Ramparts -- That Sinking Feeling -- A Bad Bargain. |
Other Titles: | Who paid the piper? |
Responsibility: | Frances Stonor Saunders. |
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Abstract:
"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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"A tale of intrigue and betrayal, with scene after scene as thrilling as any in a John le Carre novel." -Chronicle of Higher Education"A major work of investigative history [and] an extremely valuable contribution to the all-important post-World War II record." -Edward Said, London Review of Books"[Saunders] writes with a sense of humor and an appreciation of the historical circumstances. . . . [She] avoids polemic and fits the fragments of elusive fact into a coherent and persuasive narrative." -Lewis Lapham, Los Angeles Times"Makes clear the sinuous interlocking nature of American governmental, corporate andcultural life . . . consistently fascinating." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World"Saunders negotiates an ocean of factual material deftly and . . . is very good on the ethical and political ironies of the CIA's cultural projects." -San Francisco Chronicle"The comprehensive guide to the CIA's involvement with the arts." -The Awl Read more...


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