The Resource Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers, Joel Whitney
Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers, Joel Whitney
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The item Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers, Joel Whitney represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers, Joel Whitney represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures--including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright--tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA created literary magazines that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the 'cultural' CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation. Finks demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors again and again used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. democracy a little closer to the Soviet model of the surveillance state."--Publisher description
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Edition
- First trade printing.
- Extent
- 329 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Introduction: A lit'r'y coup
- Graduates
- The responsibility of editors
- Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli
- The Paris Review goes to Moscow
- Did the CIA censor its magazines?
- James Baldwin's protest
- Into India
- The US coup in Guatemala
- Cuba: a portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1
- Cuba: a portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and García Márquez, part 2
- Tools rush in: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford
- The vital center cannot hold
- Blowback
- Coda: Afghanistan
- Isbn
- 9781682190241
- Label
- Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers
- Title
- Finks
- Title remainder
- how the CIA tricked the world's best writers
- Statement of responsibility
- Joel Whitney
- Title variation
- How the CIA tricked the world's best writers
- Subject
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- Propaganda -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Cultural policy
- Freedom and art -- Political aspects -- United States
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Influence
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and culture -- United States
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- "When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold, with the reputations of some of America's best-loved literary figures--including Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and Richard Wright--tarnished as their work for the intelligence agency has come to light. Finks is a tale of two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature. One CIA created literary magazines that promoted American and European writers and cultural freedom, while the other toppled governments, using assassination and censorship as political tools. Defenders of the 'cultural' CIA argue that it should have been lauded for boosting interest in the arts and freedom of thought, but the two CIAs had the same undercover goals, and shared many of the same methods: deception, subterfuge and intimidation. Finks demonstrates how the good-versus-bad CIA is a false divide, and that the cultural Cold Warriors again and again used anti-Communism as a lever to spy relentlessly on leftists, and indeed writers of all political inclinations, and thereby pushed U.S. democracy a little closer to the Soviet model of the surveillance state."--Publisher description
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Whitney, Joel
- Dewey number
- 327.1273
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- Propaganda
- Politics and culture
- Freedom and art
- United States
- Label
- Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers, Joel Whitney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: A lit'r'y coup -- Graduates -- The responsibility of editors -- Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli -- The Paris Review goes to Moscow -- Did the CIA censor its magazines? -- James Baldwin's protest -- Into India -- The US coup in Guatemala -- Cuba: a portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1 -- Cuba: a portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and García Márquez, part 2 -- Tools rush in: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford -- The vital center cannot hold -- Blowback -- Coda: Afghanistan
- Control code
- ocn952389413
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First trade printing.
- Extent
- 329 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781682190241
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Finks : how the CIA tricked the world's best writers, Joel Whitney
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: A lit'r'y coup -- Graduates -- The responsibility of editors -- Pasternak, the CIA, and Feltrinelli -- The Paris Review goes to Moscow -- Did the CIA censor its magazines? -- James Baldwin's protest -- Into India -- The US coup in Guatemala -- Cuba: a portrait by Figueres, Plimpton, Hemingway, García Márquez, part 1 -- Cuba: a portrait by Plimpton, Hemingway and García Márquez, part 2 -- Tools rush in: Pablo Neruda, Mundo Nuevo and Keith Botsford -- The vital center cannot hold -- Blowback -- Coda: Afghanistan
- Control code
- ocn952389413
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First trade printing.
- Extent
- 329 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781682190241
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Propaganda -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Cultural policy
- Freedom and art -- Political aspects -- United States
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Influence
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th century
- Politics and culture -- United States
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