{"product_id":"cold-warriors-duncan-white-9780062449818","title":"Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their authors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and established vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by political fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCold Warriors\u003c\/em\u003e, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carr , Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and V clav Havel. Here, too, are the spies, government officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics who helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have been higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, \u003cem\u003eCold Warriors\u003c\/em\u003e is both a gripping saga of prose and politics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too frequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers and books \u003cem\u003ecan \u003c\/em\u003echange the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Duncan White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062449818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062449818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Custom House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 2.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019 pg. 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/28\/2019 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2019 pg. 16","brand":"Duncan White","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990076031231,"sku":"9780062449818","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bab4a681-5b76-479d-9bf5-58de62e94edc.jpg?v=1683302856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-warriors-duncan-white-9780062449818","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}