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Bibliography Information:
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Collection:
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7-day Books |
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Call Number:
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028.7 English |
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Author:
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English, Charlie |
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Title:
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The CIA book club |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"For almost five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, standing as the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. With the risk of nuclear annihilation too high for physical combat, conflict was reserved for the psychological sphere. No one understood this battle of hearts, minds, and intellects more clearly than Bucharest-born George Minden, the head of a covert intelligence operation known as the "CIA books program." This initiative aimed to win the Cold War with literature: to undermine the censorship of the Soviet bloc and inspire revolt by offering different visions of thought and culture to the people. From its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's global CIA "book club" would infiltrate millions of banned titles into the Eastern Bloc, written by a vast and eclectic list of authors. Volumes were smuggled on trucks and aboard yachts, dropped from balloons, and hidden in the luggage of hundreds of thousands of individual travelers. Once inside Soviet bloc, each book would circulate secretly among dozens of like-minded readers, quietly turning them into dissidents. Soon, underground print shops began to reproduce the books, too. By the late 1980s, illicit literature in Poland was so pervasive that the system of communist censorship broke down, and the Iron Curtain soon followed. Former head of international news at the Guardian, Charlie English is the first to uncover this true story of Cold War spy craft, smuggling and secret printing operations, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who risked their lives to stand up to the intellectual strait-jacket Stalin created. People like Miroslaw Chojecki, an underground Polish publisher who endured beatings, force-feeding and exile in service of this mission and Minden, the CIA's mastermind, who didn't waver in his belief that truth, culture, and diversity of thought could help free the "captive nations" of Eastern Europe. This is a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free"-- Provided by publisher. |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780593447918 |
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hardcover |
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ebook |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780593447901 |
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System control number:
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(DLC)24151025 |
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System control number:
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24153440 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 |
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045765 |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us--- |
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Geographic area code:
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ee----- |
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Classification number:
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Z1003.5.E92 |
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Edition number:
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23/eng/20250411 |
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Classification number:
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028.70947/0904 |
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009015365 |
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http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/no2009015365 |
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Relator code:
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http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut |
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Relator code:
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aut |
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Relator term:
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author |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Charlie English. |
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Title proper/short title:
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Central Intelligence Agency book club |
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Edition statement:
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First edition. |
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Place of publication:
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New York, NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Random House |
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Date of publication:
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2025 |
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Projected publication date:
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2507 |
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New York, NY : |
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Random House, |
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2025. |
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Extent:
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341 p. includes index |
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Other physical details:
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Hardcover |
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http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/issuance/mono |
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single unit |
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mono |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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computer |
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c |
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rdacarrier |
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online resource |
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cr |
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http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/bibliography |
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http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/index |
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bibliography |
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index |
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bibliography |
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index |
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Bibliography, etc. note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Formatted contents note:
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Prologue: Teresa's Flying Library -- PART ONE: HOPE (1980-1981) -- A Snaggle-Toothed Thought Machine -- Our Friends Down South -- The French Connection -- An International Spider Web -- They Will Crush Us Like Bugs -- The Deal -- PART TWO: WAR (1981-1985) -- The Night of the General -- This Is Big Casino -- Citizens versus the Secret Police -- Raphael -- Ideas for Getting Out of a No-Win Situation -- HELPFUL -- Oh Sh**! Reactionary Propaganda! -- This Turbulent Priest -- The Network -- PART THREE: RECKONING (1986-1989) -- The Regina Affair -- A General, a Lowly Recruit and All Ranks in Between -- Television Free Europe -- High Noon -- Bloody Feliks -- Epilogue: The Best-Kept Secret. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Ingrams |
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Purchase price:
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$35.00 |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element:
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United States. |
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Subordinate unit:
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Central Intelligence Agency |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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Chronological subdivision:
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20th century |
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Subject:
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Books and reading |
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Subject:
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Information warfare |
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Subject:
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Information warfare |
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Subject:
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Cold War |
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Subject:
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Publishers and publishing |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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General subdivision:
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Propaganda |
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General subdivision:
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Political aspects. |
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Chronological subdivision:
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20th century |
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Chronological subdivision:
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20th century |
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Chronological subdivision:
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20th century |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Europe, Eastern |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Europe, Eastern |
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http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/24151025 |
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http://id.loc.gov/resources/works/24151025 |
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http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/instanceOf |
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Main entry heading:
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English, Charlie |
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Edition:
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First edition. |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York, NY : Random House, 2025 |
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Display text:
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Print version: |
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Title:
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CIA book club |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2025008065 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780593447901 |
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DLC bibframe2marc v2.10-dev |
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20250411 |
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DLC |
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https://github.com/lcnetdev/bibframe2marc/releases/tag/v2.10-dev |
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acquire |
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ecip ebook |
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policy default |
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ecip ebook 2025-04-14 |
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LC online resource |
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2025-04-14 |