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Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers

Whitney, Joel, (author.).
Book  - 2016
327.1273 Whi
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Subject
United States. Central Intelligence Agency > History > 20th century.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency > Influence.
Propaganda > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and culture > United States.
Freedom and art > Political aspects > United States.
United States > Cultural policy.
  • ISBN: 9781944869137
  • Physical Description 329 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher New York : OR Books, [2016]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Lit'r'y coup -- Graduates -- Responsibility of editors -- Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli -- Paris Review goes to Moscow -- Did the CIA censor its magazines? -- James Baldwin's protest -- Into India -- US coup in Guatemala -- Cuba: a portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, Garcia Marquez, part 1 -- Cuba: a portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and Garcia Marquez, part 2 -- Tools rush in: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford -- Vital center cannot hold -- Blowback -- Coda: Afghanistan.