Campaigning culture and the global Cold War : the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Giles Scott-Smith, Charlotte A. Lerg, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott-Smith, Giles, 1968- editor.

Lerg, Charlotte A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History.

United States.

Congress for Cultural Freedom.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Anti-communist movements.

Cold War--Propaganda.

Cold War.

Propaganda.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 331 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

"This book explores the lasting legacy of the controversial project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, funded by the CIA, to promote Western culture and liberal values in the battle of ideas with global Communism during the Cold War. One of the most important elements of this campaign was a series of journals published around the world: Encounter, Preuves, Quest, Mundo Nuevo, and many others, involving many of the most famous intellectuals to promote a global intellectual community. Some of them, such as Minerva and China Quarterly, are still going to this day. This study examines when and why these journals were founded, who ran them, and how we should understand their cultural message in relation to the secret patron that paid the bills"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction : Journals of freedom? / Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte A. Lerg

Part I. Science. Science and freedom : the forgotten bulletin / Audra J. Wolfe ; Consensus, civility, community : Minerva and the vision of Edward Shils / Roy MacLeod

Part II. Europe. Der Monat and the Congress for Cultural Freedom : the high tide of the intellectual Cold War, 1948-1971 / Michael Hochgeschwender ; The difficult emergence of an 'anti-totalitarian' journal in post-war France : Preuves and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Nicolas Stenger ; 'Our greatest asset' : Encounter magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Jason Harding ; Beyond the Cold War : Tempo presente in Italy / Chiara Morbi and Paola Carlucci ; 'Vienna is different' : Friedrich Torberg's journal Forum, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and competing soft-power strategies in the Cold War / Felix Tweraser ; Tracking the bear : Survey / Giles Scott-Smith

Part III. Latin America. Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de Cultura (1953-1965) and the failure of a Cold War liberal project for Latin America / Olga Glondys ; Mundo nuevo : behind the scenes of a Spanish Encounter / María Eugenia Mudrovcic

Part IV. Africa and the Middle East. Cold War in the Arabic press : Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962-67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Elizabeth M. Holt ; Black Orpheus and the African magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Asha Rogers

Part V. Asia. Japan's CCF affiliate, Jiyú, and covert public diplomacy / Ann Sherif ; Quest : twenty years of cultural politics / Eric Pullin ; Quadrant : the evolution of an Australian conservative journal / John Chiddick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.

ISBN:

9781137598660

1137598662

OCLC:

964377808