America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe /

In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff "measure" America's cultural impact in Europe. He wanted to determine whether efforts to improve opinions of American culture were yielding good returns. Taking St...

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Main Author: Berghahn, Volker R. 1938-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Abbreviation
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. From Nashua and Berlin to Pearl Harbor
  • CHAPTER 2. Defeating and Rebuilding Germany
  • CHAPTER 3. Public Opinion and High Politics in Semisovereign West Germany
  • CHAPTER 4. Mass Society and the Threat of Totalitarianism
  • CHAPTER 5. Western Intellectuals and the Cold Culture Wars of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF)
  • CHAPTER 6. Internationalizing the Ford Foundation
  • CHAPTER 7. Philanthropy and Diplomacy
  • CHAPTER 8. The CIA, the Ford Foundation, and the Demise of the CCF Empire
  • CHAPTER 9. Coping with the New Culture Wars of the 1960s and Beyond
  • CHAPTER 10. Transatlantic Cultural Relations in the "American Century"
  • APPENDIX I. List of West German Newspapers Subsidized by HICOG
  • APPENDIX II. American Foundations Ranked by Assets, 1960
  • APPENDIX III. International Association for Cultural Freedom, Table of Organization
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index