The struggle against communism became the all-consuming passion of a small group of American men whose actions still reverberate today, and in many ways, mirror the Soviet ideology they despised. This is the story of one part of the very real "culture wars" waged by the CIA and its surrogates.
The struggle against communism became the all-consuming passion of a small group of American men whose actions still reverberate today, and in many ways, mirror the Soviet ideology they despised. This is the story of one part of the very real "culture wars" waged by the CIA and its surrogates.
Joel Whitney is a cofounder and editor at large of Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Boston Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Dissent, Salon, NPR, New York Magazine and The Sun. With photographer Brett Van Ort, he co-wrote the 2013 TED Talks ebook on landmine eradication, Minescape. His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, and Agni. His Salon essay on The Paris Review and the Congress for Cultural Freedom was a Notable in the 2013 Best American Essays.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: A Lit r y Coup 1: Graduates 2: The Responsibility of Editors 3: Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli 4: The Paris Review Goes to Moscow 5: Did the CIA Censor Its Magazines? 6: James Baldwin s Protest 7: Into India 8: The US Coup in Guatemala 9: Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1 10: Cuba: A Portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway, and García Márquez, part 2 11: Tools Rush In: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo, and Keith Botsford 12: The Vital Center Cannot Hold 13: Blowback Coda: Afghanistan Endnotes Sources Index
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: A Lit r y Coup 1: Graduates 2: The Responsibility of Editors 3: Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli 4: The Paris Review Goes to Moscow 5: Did the CIA Censor Its Magazines? 6: James Baldwin s Protest 7: Into India 8: The US Coup in Guatemala 9: Cuba: A Portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1 10: Cuba: A Portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway, and García Márquez, part 2 11: Tools Rush In: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo, and Keith Botsford 12: The Vital Center Cannot Hold 13: Blowback Coda: Afghanistan Endnotes Sources Index
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