After World War II, intellectual circles in the Western world generally reduced their prejudice against the Soviet Union. In order to curb the Soviet Union's "expansion" to the west, the United States launched a decades-long Cold War. This is a well-known historical fact. However, the general discussion focuses on the political and military fields, and rarely touches the cultural and artistic fields, and this book focuses its attention on this field. Providing readers with shocking evidence of the CIA's covert program of cultural intervention, this book brings together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to reveal the CIA's astonishing "campaign" in which they deployed Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock, among others, as cultural "weapons" during the Cold War...
The author, Frances Stoner Sanders, spent seven or eight years from the beginning of research to the completion of the book. She traveled to various places, consulted a large amount of information, and interviewed all the parties involved who were still alive. It is probably less biased and less restrictive for a British person to write about the United States.
