A Thorn in the Rosebush. The American Bart Estate and Archives During the Cold War, 1946-67 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781943596232)

This book opens up new perspectives on the history of B駘a Bart's music in the 20th century. It joins a growing literature on music and the cultural Cold War. It draws inspiration from a trove of historic correspondence discovered in Massachusetts in 2010, written by B駘a Bart's executor and trustee, Victor Bator. Bator, an accomplished Hungarian-American businessman, had been personally appointed to this role by the composer. He fulfilled his charge honorably, using his court-backed authority to fend off challenges hurled against him by Hungarian government attorneys eager to wrest Bart's legacy from New York City and return it to Budapest. Epic transcontinental legal battles dragged on for decades, locking the Bart Estate in bitter conflict. Unpublished letters from Bator's desk form the starting point for the book, which weaves them into a larger story of one man's battle to keep the American Bart Estate and Archives from falling into

Communist hands during the Cold War.