{"product_id":"cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war-a-gripping-history-of-prose-politics-and-espionage-9780062449818","title":"Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War – A Gripping History of Prose, Politics, and Espionage","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War – A Gripping History of Prose, Politics, and Espionage\u003c\/strong\u003e by White, Duncan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780062449818.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\nthis brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and\npoets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and\nconspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union\nand the West\nDuring the Cold War, literature was\nboth sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds\nof those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They\ncould also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their\nauthors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services\nof the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and\nestablished vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the\nbattles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by\npolitical fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And\nwhile literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged\nfor a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield.\n\nIn\nCold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was\nwaged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George\nOrwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,\nJohn le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris\nPasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies,\ngovernment officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics\nwho helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have\nbeen higher.\nDrawing\nupon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, Cold Warriors is both a gripping saga of prose and\npolitics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too\nfrequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers\nand books can change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mariner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256271265845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062449818","price":31.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062449818_ae2e0798-9edc-4868-986e-877801b3fecd.jpg?v=1779940644","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cold-warriors-writers-who-waged-the-literary-cold-war-a-gripping-history-of-prose-politics-and-espionage-9780062449818","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}