{"product_id":"cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war-paperback","title":"Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDuncan White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ethis brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and\u003cbr\u003epoets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and\u003cbr\u003econspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union\u003cbr\u003eand the West\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Cold War, literature was\u003cbr\u003eboth sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds\u003cbr\u003eof those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They\u003cbr\u003ecould also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their\u003cbr\u003eauthors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services\u003cbr\u003eof the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and\u003cbr\u003eestablished vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the\u003cbr\u003ebattles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by\u003cbr\u003epolitical fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And\u003cbr\u003ewhile literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged\u003cbr\u003efor a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCold Warriors\u003c\/em\u003e, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was\u003cbr\u003ewaged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George\u003cbr\u003eOrwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, \u003cbr\u003eJohn le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris\u003cbr\u003ePasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies, \u003cbr\u003egovernment officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics\u003cbr\u003ewho helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have\u003cbr\u003ebeen higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing\u003cbr\u003eupon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, \u003cem\u003eCold Warriors\u003c\/em\u003e is both a gripping saga of prose and\u003cbr\u003epolitics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too\u003cbr\u003efrequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers\u003cbr\u003eand books \u003cem\u003ecan \u003c\/em\u003echange the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 800\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50335388369133,"sku":"9780062449832","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/ai8bDDV5g79780062449832.webp?v=1785037601","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}