Hot books in the Cold War : the West's CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / Alfred A. Reisch.

Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY : Central European University Press, 2013.

xxviii, 549 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 24 cm

Published in 2013 by Central European University Press.

Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Kft., Budapest.

Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker -- Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings -- The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition -- The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books -- The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s -- Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support -- New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts -- The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council -- A Lasting Enemy -- The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings, and Attacks -- The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958-1959 -- Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Personto-Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings -- The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 -- Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism -- Letters from Romania Under the Ceauşescu Regime -- Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship -- The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])