Who Paid The Piper?: The CIA And The Cultural Cold War (Paperback)

Frances Stonor Saunders has almost single-handedly started off a branch of sub-history; the cultural cold war. Who Paid The Piper? is an extraordinarily good book and I do recommend it to anyone who's remotely interested in the period - Ian McEwan, author of Sweet Tooth, BBC Radio 4

This is the fascinating story of the vast post-war Kulturkampf, the Cold War conflict over cultural values and ideologies amid which several literary and cultural generations grew up ... a crucial story about the dangerous, compromising energies and manipulation of an entire and a very recent age - Malcolm Bradbury, The Times

A major work of investigative history - Edward W. Said

Absorbing, distressing and at times uproariously funny - Observer

Francis Stonor Saunders has written a hammer blow of a book, definitely establishing the facts of the CIA's activities ... Her research is formidable, her tone tenacious, her eye for a titbit vivid, her sense of humour lively. - Spectator

Stories of high level espionage... disturbing disclosures and a literary style of enviable sharpness and wit are some of the ingredients to be relished in this marvellously readable account - The Literary Review

Saunders chronicles this entire story with both verve and an astonishing attention to detail ... an interesting and unexpected cultural history of our age - UK Kirkus