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Cold Warriors

Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

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Cold Warriors

De: Duncan White
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A brilliant, invigorating account of the great writers on both sides of the Iron Curtain who played the dangerous games of espionage, dissidence, and subversion that changed the course of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to exile, imprisonment or execution if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union had secret agents and vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turning on each other, lovers cleaved by political fissures, artists undermined by inadvertent complicities.

In Cold Warriors, Harvard University’s Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The book has at its heart five major writers - George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene and Andrei Sinyavsky - but the full cast includes a dazzling array of giants, among them Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, Arthur Koestler, Vaclav Havel, Joan Didion, Isaac Babel, Howard Fast, Lillian Hellman, Mikhail Sholokhov - and scores more.

Spanning decades and continents and spectacularly meshing gripping narrative with perceptive literary detective work, Cold Warriors is a welcome reminder that, at a moment when ignorance is celebrated and reading and listening are seen as increasingly irrelevant, writers and books can change the world.

©2019 Duncan White (P)2019 HarperAudio
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An Unexpectedly Interesting and Insightful Read

including a fresh perspective on Philby's phate. Well done ! says this Ame. excellent research.

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Great overview of troubling history from a unique perspective!

The broad sweep of the story and the people who lived it and wrote it.

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Interesting and Relevant History

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the book and enjoyed learning more details about the authors we've all read in school. The book struggles in the same way that all books which tackle such large topics do; that is the struggle with become tedious halfway through. However, White did well maintaining his pace and focus throughout. I think as a society and as a country we would all do well to remember and learn from both the good and the bad of the cold war as the challenges of social media and AI lead many to desire more censorship.

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