US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War

Dept of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK Department of History, University of Sheffield, UK

• Introduction: Negotiating FreedomChapter 1. Conceptualising the State-Private Network Chapter 2. Clark Eichelberger and the Negotiation of Internationalism Chapter 3. The Importance of being (in) Earnest Chapter 4. Voluntary Associations Chapter 5. State-Private Network in the Early Cold War From Cooperation to Covert Actions: The United States Government and Students 1940-52 Chapter 6. Building a Community around the Pax Americana: The US Government and Exchange Programmes in the 1950s, Giles Scott-Smith Chapter 7. The Finest Labor Network in Europe’: American Labour and the Cold War Chapter 8. In Search of a Clear and overarching American Policy: The Reporter magazine (1949-1968) and The Cold War Chapter 9. The role of Interpretation, Negotiation and Compromise in the State-Private Network and British American Studies Chapter 10. Ambassadors of the Screen: Film and the State-Private Network in Cold War America Religious Nonprofit Organizations, the Cold War State and Resurgent Evangelicalism, 1845-1990, Chapter 11. Permanent Revolution’? The New York Intellectuals the CIA and the Cultural Cold War Chapter 12. Public Diplomacy and the Private Sector: The United States Information Agency, it’s Predecessors and the Private Sector.

'The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe is highly recommended for Cold Warscholars. Most of the contributors offer fresh insights into the nature of what is oftennow called the “state-private networks” operating on various levels during the ColdWar. Most of the essays are tightly argued, using primary sources culled from American and European archives. The contributors are rightly unwilling to take official claims of infuence at face value. Thankfully, they eschew the esoteric jargon that all too frequently bedevils cultural studies.''This is an excellent, and an excellently conceived and edited, essay collection.' - Cambridge Journal