Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

In
this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and
poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and
conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union
and the West

During the Cold War, literature was
both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds
of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They
could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or executi...