| Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy Subjects: United States -- Cultural policy; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Propaganda -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Political as; Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the Cold War Greg Barnhisel teaches in the English department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. His previous books include James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound and, with Catherine Turner, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War . |