| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and Post-War American Hegemony. By Giles Scott-Smith. (New York: Routledge, 2002. xiv, 233 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-415-24445-5.)

When Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced the famous Marshall Plan at the Harvard University commencement in June 1947, he was one of several distinguished guests to receive honorary degrees that day, the others being Robert Oppenheimer, head of the wartime Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb; the D day commander, Gen. Omar Bradley; and the poet T. S. Eliot. Although Eliot may have seemed out of place in that group, his presence, according to Giles Scott-Smith, actually symbolized the cultural dimension of America's postwar hegemony, just as the other honorees symbolized its economic, political, and military dimensions. Similarly, Scott-Smith, a postdoctoral researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center in the Netherlands, makes the case that the Congress for Cultural Freedom was nothing less than the cultural counterpart of the Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It was a mechanism by which Western intellectuals, in collaboration with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), forged the transatlantic consensus through which American hegemony operated. . . .

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