JOELWHITNEY

RECENT WRITINGS
At Jacobin: "Wake Up, America!": Paul Robeson in Peekskill

At The Baffler: Our Man in Hollywood, Graham Greene, Vietnam & the CIA

At Poetry Foundation: The Violent Years:
The Oppens, the Cold War & the FBI

In Jacobin: Lorraine Hansberry Was
an Unapologetic Radical, Dec 16, 2020

In Jacobin: The Murder of
Malcolm X, July 17, 2020

In Jacobin: There is No Writer Quite
Like Arundhati Roy, May 20, 2020

In The Baffler: Propaganda,
Anti-Propaganda, Dec. 6, 2019

In Truthdig, How Democrats Sowed the Seeds of the Border Crisis, Aug 29, 2019

At Poetry Foundation, Pablo Neruda's Exile Marked the Cold War's First Global Manhunt, July 8, 2019 (more)

_____________________praise for Finks_____________________

“Riveting.”
-Kirkus
“A fascinating mix of political history [&] literary history.”
-New York Times
“A revelation.”
-Arundhati Roy
“An essential book.”
-Los Angeles Review of Books
“A powerful warning.”
-The New Republic

Endorsements

"Listen to this book, because it talks in a very clear way about what has been silenced." —John Berger, author of Ways of Seeing and winner of the Man Booker Prize

"Another odd episode steps out from the Cold War's shadows. Riveting."
--Kirkus, Starred Review

"The CIA's covert financial support of highbrow art & fiction may seem like a quaint, even endearing, chapter in its otherwise grim history of coups, assassinations, and torture. In Finks, Joel Whitney argues otherwise and shines a discomfiting spotlight on this obscure corner of the cultural Cold War. The result is both an illuminating read and a cautionary tale about the potential costs—political and artistic—of accommodating power."
—Ben Wizner, Director of Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, ACLU

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