The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State
ISBN: 9780801465918
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Cornell University Press
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Subjects: Literary Studies (American) Literary Studies (20th Century onwards);

Examining how since 1947 a regime of psychological operations and covert action has made the conflation of reality and fiction a central feature of both U.S. foreign policy and American culture.


Timothy Melley is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America , also from Cornell.

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