Who Paid The Piper? The CIA And The Cultural Cold War
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Biographical note
Frances Stonor Saunders lives in London. She is the author of Hawkwood and Who Paid the Piper? - a history of the cultural cold war that has been translated into many languages.Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordinarily good book and I do recommend it to anyone who's remotely interested in the period
- Ian McEwan, author of Sweet Tooth, BBC Radio 4
This is the fascinating story of the vast post-war Kulturkampf, the Cold War conflict over cultural values and ideologies amid which several literary and cultural generations grew up ... a crucial story about the dangerous, compromising energies and manipulation of an entire and a very recent age
- Malcolm Bradbury, The Times
A major work of investigative history
- Edward W. Said,
Absorbing, distressing and at times uproariously funny
Observer
Francis Stonor Saunders has written a hammer blow of a book, definitely establishing the facts of the CIA's activities ... Her research is formidable, her tone tenacious, her eye for a titbit vivid, her sense of humour lively.
Spectator
Stories of high level espionage... disturbing disclosures and a literary style of enviable sharpness and wit are some of the ingredients to be relished in this marvellously readable account
- The Literary Review,
Saunders chronicles this entire story with both verve and an astonishing attention to detail ... an interesting and unexpected cultural history of our age
UK Kirkus