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'Our Greatest Asset':<I>Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom

Harding, J.

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Contributors

Charlotte Lerg
Editor

Giles Scott-Smith
Editor

Abstract

This chapter examines Michael Josselson’s assertion that Encounter magazine represented the Congress for Cultural Freedom’s ‘greatest asset’. It considers the unpublished archival record, and the vexed question of the relation of CIA funding to Encounter’s editorial independence. However, it places the greatest emphasis on interpreting the contents of the magazine in the light of the details of contemporary periodical debates in London, and also within the larger intellectual currents of the cultural Cold War. Ultimately, Harding’s analysis reveals the extent to which Encounter transcended rather than conformed to the template set by other CCF journals.

Citation

Harding, J. (2017). 'Our Greatest Asset':Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. In C. Lerg, & G. Scott-Smith (Eds.), Campaigning culture and the global Cold War : the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (107-125). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59867-7_6

Online Publication Date Jun 3, 2017
Publication Date Jun 3, 2017
Deposit Date Oct 18, 2016
Publicly Available Date Jun 3, 2020
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 107-125
Book Title Campaigning culture and the global Cold War : the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.
ISBN 9781137598660
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59867-7_6

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Harding, J. (2017) '‘Our greatest asset’ : Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom.', in Campaigning culture and the global Cold War: the journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137598660




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