During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is known about their daily internal workings. With a specific focus on...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

The "rivetingly told" (Times Literary Supplement) story of the CIA's Cold War cultural operations, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a "hammer-blow of a book" (The Spectator, Lo...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to wha...(展开全部)

The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to wha...(展开全部)

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)

World War Two left two compelling, indelible images that colored the decades to come: the immense force of the Soviet Union's Red Army and the horrific devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. For the next half-century, the great powers prepared themselves for another, deadlier international conflagration...one that never happened. Politicians and strate...(展开全部)

约翰•刘易斯•加迪斯（JOHN LEWIS GADDIS），现为耶鲁大学罗伯特•A.拉韦特（Robert A Lovett）讲座教授，著名的冷战史学家和大战略研究家，曾被《纽约时报》称作“冷战史学泰斗”，2005年获美国“国家人文奖章”（National Humanit ies Medal）。著有《遏制战略》（Strategies of Containment）、《长和平》（The Long Peace）、The United States and the Origins of the Cold War、、We Now Know、The landscape of History、Surprise, Security, and the American Experience、George F. Kennan。 翟强 ，美国奥本大学蒙哥马利校区历史系教授...(展开全部)