Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War

Giles Scott-Smith holds the Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Transatlantic Relations since WWII at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His previous books include The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, and CIA, and Postwar American Hegemony (2002).Charlotte A. Lerg teaches history at the Amerika Institut at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. She also serves as managing director of the Lasky Center for Transatlantic Studies.

• Preface; Matthew Spender.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Journals of Freedom?; Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg.- Part 1: Science.- Chapter 2:  Science and Freedom: The Forgotten Bulletin; Audra Wolfe.- Chapter 3: Consensus, Civility, Community: Minerva and the Vision of Edward Shils; Roy Macleod.- Part 2: Europe.- Chapter 4: Der Monat and the Congress for Cultural Freedom: The High Tide of the Intellectual Cold War, 1948-1971; Michael Hochgeschwender.- Chapter 5: The Difficult Emergence of an ‘Anti-Totalitarian’ Journal in Post-War France: Preuves and the Congress for Cultural Freedom; Nicholas Stenger.- Chapter 6: ‘Our greatest asset’: Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom; Jason Harding.- Chapter 7: Beyond the Cold War: Tempo Presente in Italy; Paola Carlucci and Chiara Morbi.- Chapter 8: ‘Vienna is Different’: Friedrich Torberg’s Journal Forum, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and Competing Soft-Power Strategies in the Cold War; Felix W. Tweraser.- Chapter 9: Tracking the Bear: Survey; Giles Scott-Smith.- Part 3: Latin America.- Chapter 10: Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de Cultura (1953-1965) and the Failure of a Cold War Liberal Project for Latin America; Olga Glondys.- Chapter 11: Mundo Nuevo: Behind the Scenes of a Spanish Encounter; Maria Eugenia Mudrovcic.- Part 4: Africa and the Middle East.- Chapter 12: Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962-67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom; Elisabeth M. Holt.- Chapter 13: Black Orpheus and the African magazines of the Congress for Cultural Freedom; Asha Rogers.- Part 5: Asia.- Chapter 14: Japan’s CCF Affiliate, Jiyû, and Covert Public Diplomacy; Ann Sherif.- Chapter 15: Quest: Twenty Years of Cultural Politics; Eric Pullin.- Chapter 16: Quadrant: The Evolution of an Australian Conservative Journal; John Chiddick.