The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters

The Cultural Cold War, “the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967” (The New York Times), presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s manipulative cultural undertakings during the Cold War. This “impressively detailed” (Kirkus Reviews) book draws together newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign wherein some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom – including George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Gloria Steinem – became instruments of the American government. It is a “tale of intrigue and betrayal, with scene after scene as thrilling as any in a John Le Carré novel” (The Chronicle of Higher Education).