During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not.Called “the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967” by the New York Times, The Cultural Cold War presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home. This “impressively detailed” (Kirkus Reviews) book draws together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War.Widely reviewed upon its original publication in 2000, awarded the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Memorial Prize, and translated into ten languages, the book is “a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period” (The Wall Street Journal). This edition includes a new preface by the author recalling the complexity of writing the book and its impact on publication.