"If the world doesn't care if a woman goes crazy, 
then the world needs a crazy woman.  
And other Mathematical Certainties!"

Told through the eyes of a generation systematically oppressed though media, 
uses media to give a glimpse of how the normal could get this bad.




“Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history: the cultural cold war. . . . An extraordinarily good book, and I recommend it to anyone.” —Ian McEwan

Featuring Music by Alice Coltrane, 

Haruomi Hosono,

 Visuals by Zabet Pucket,

Narration by Francis Stonor Saunders' 

The Cultural Cold War.





“A real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Makes clear the sinuous interlocking nature of American governmental, corporate and cultural life . . . consistently fascinating.”
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
“A major work of investigative history [and] an extremely valuable contribution to the all-important post–World War II record.”
—Edward Said, London Review of Books
“Saunders negotiates an ocean of factual material deftly and . . . is very good on the ethical and political ironies of the CIA’s cultural projects.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“An extraordinarily good book . . . I recommend it to anyone.”
—Ian McEwan
“[Saunders] writes with a sense of humor and an appreciation of the historical circumstances. . . . [She] avoids polemic and fits the fragments of elusive fact into a coherent and persuasive narrative.”
—Lewis Lapham, Los Angeles Times
“A tale of intrigue and betrayal, with scene after scene as thrilling as any in a John le Carré novel.”
—Chronicle of Higher Education
“The comprehensive guide to the CIA’s involvement with the arts.”
—The Awl

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