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Frances Stonor Saunders - Who Paid The Piper?, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Who Paid The Piper?

The CIA And The Cultural Cold War

Av Frances Stonor Saunders

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Reissue of a ground-breaking investigative history of the CIA's covert cultural mission to win hearts and minds during the Cold War - with a new foreword by Charlie English, author of The CIA Book ClubDuring the Cold War, the battle for ideological and economic supremacy was fought on every front. At the heart of the US's campaign to inoculate the world against Communism and advance its own liberal democratic ideals was the CIA's Congress of Cultural Freedom - an organisation that was as clandestine as it was powerful. Drawing on declassified documents and exclusive interviews, this book exposes the astonishing secret campaign to deploy some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West (including Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock) as instruments - whether they knew it or not, whether they liked it or not - of America's secret service.One of the great stories of intellectual and artistic corruption by power, Who Paid the Piper? is a classic of investigative history and a landmark portrait of a period when politics and culture became dangerously intertwined.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-08
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 44 mm
  • Vikt: 382 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 528
  • Förlag: Granta Books
  • ISBN: 9781803514963
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Frances Stonor Saunders is a writer, broadcaster and documentary maker. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper?The CIA and the Cultural Cold War won the Royal Historical Society's William Gladstone Memorial Prize, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and is now published in fifteen languages. Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman, recounts the life of John Hawkwood, a condottiere of the fourteenth century. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini is a biography of Violet Gibson, the Anglo-Irish aristocrat who shot and wounded Mussolini. Her most recent book, The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border, won the PEN Ackerley Prize. Frances is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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One of the most exciting non-fiction writers of her generation... A determined sceptic, she had an instinct for sniffing out corruption or moral cowardice, and a magpie eye for a neglected snippet of history from which she could spin a much bigger story... Nearly 30 years after it was first published, the book's warnings about the weaponisation of culture for political ends are all too timely

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