PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Greg Barnhisel teaches in the English department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. His previous books include James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound and, with Catherine Turner, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War.
This is a thoroughly excellent book, a magnum opus of genuine scholarship, and a genuine delight for readers. -- Lawrence Rainey, University of York This book fills a long-felt need for a scholarly work on the importance of U.S. cultural exchange with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -- Yale Richmond, Foreign Service Officer, retired, and former Counselor for Press and Culture in the American Embassy in Moscow Conceptually sophisticated, thoroughly researched, and lucidly written, Greg Barnhisel's important new study combines an assured grasp of historical context with sensitive readings of artworks and literary texts to illuminate previously obscure aspects of the 'Cultural Cold War.' -- Hugh Wilford, author of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America and America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East. Deftly working across genres, Barnhisel mobilizes rich archival sources to show not only the accommodation of modernism to anti-Communism but also the entanglement of the highbrow and the middlebrow. In that way, this lively, fascinating book contributes to the histories of both cultural diplomacy and cultural hierarchy. -- Joan Shelley Rubin, author of Cultural Considerations: Essays on Readers, Writers, and Musicians in Postwar America [A] groundbreaking book. -- Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly Making good use of archival sources, Mr. Barnhisel provides an engaging and informative survey. -- Glenn Altschuler Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cold War Modernists makes a valuable addition to the grown literature on the cultural aspects of the Cold War. Thoroughly researched and written in a compact and readable style, it is a work that sets itself a viable task and accomplishes it. Souciant An exquisite, intricate, and satisfying study... Essential. Choice A welcome addition to the scholarship on modernism after the Second World War. -- Lise Jaillant Textual Practice An important source for scholars and students of Cold War culture... Thorough and illuminating, offering a rich new account of a story we thought to be familiar. -- Will Norman The Review of English Studies Greg Barnhisel's Cold War Modernists charts impeccably the transformation of twentieth-century modernism from abrasive (European) avant-garde to a stylistic iconography of Western (American) freedom... It is one of those commendable books that invites you to revisit what has already been said and makes you realize that the established story, up till now, was lacking. -- Giles Scott-Smith Diplomatic History
