The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and post-war American hegemony

Tom Easton

Giles Scott-Smith London: Routledge/PSA 2002, £55 This is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA-funded operation that ran for two decades after World War II of which Encounter magazine was the best-known British component. Giles Scott-Smith has added to the historical record well illuminated by Christopher ... Read more

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