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The Mighty Wurlitzer : How the CIA Played America / Hugh Wilford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674032569
  • 9780674045170
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.1273009045
LOC classification:
  • JK468.I6 -- W45 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE. Innocents' Clubs -- TWO. Secret Army -- THREE. AFL-CIA -- FOUR. A Deep Sickness in New York -- FIVE. The Cultural Cold War -- SIX. The CIA on Campus -- SEVEN. The Truth Shall Make You Free -- EIGHT. Saving the World -- NINE. Into Africa -- TEN. Things Fall Apart -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674045170

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- ONE. Innocents' Clubs -- TWO. Secret Army -- THREE. AFL-CIA -- FOUR. A Deep Sickness in New York -- FIVE. The Cultural Cold War -- SIX. The CIA on Campus -- SEVEN. The Truth Shall Make You Free -- EIGHT. Saving the World -- NINE. Into Africa -- TEN. Things Fall Apart -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Wilford provides the first comprehensive account of the clandestine relationship between the CIA and its front organizations. Using an unprecedented wealth of sources, he traces the rise and fall of America's Cold War front network from its origins in the 1940s to its Third World expansion during the 1950s and ultimate collapse in the 1960s.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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