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Told through the lives of the American Century’s most glamorous and talented dissidents,  Flights is the archetypal hero’s journey of some eighteen progressives (and one centrist senator) whose struggles for the truth and for freedom from persecution sent them into exiles, both literal and metaphorical. In 1949, the poet Pablo Neruda escaped anti-communist Chile on horseback. Scrambling across Andean rivers disguised as an ornithologist named ...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a SportsmanSome time ago I was induced at the request of a friend who had charge of a Sporting Review to write some articles for his paper.These were continued longer than I had originally contemplated, and I give them with some additions in this volume.From youth I have been very fond of out-door life, and sports of all kinds, and although for many years engaged extensively in business affairs, I have never faile...

The hardcover was well-received, and Whitney continues to get interview requests The hardcover was reviewed by Kirkus (starred reviews), Library Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books and more This is crucial reading for the current moment of American media and politics in which the two are constantly in conflict and flux. Finks exposes the inherent politicization of media and art, for better and worse This book is even more relevant than wh...

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Sportsman Some time ago I was induced at the request of a friend who had charge of a Sporting Review to write some articles for his paper. These were continued longer than I had originally contemplated, and I give them with some additions in this volume. From youth I have been very fond of out-door life, and sports of all kinds, and although for many years engaged extensively in business affairs, I have never...

The struggle against communism became the all-consuming passion of a small group of American men whose actions still reverberate today, and in many ways, mirror the Soviet ideology they despised. This is the story of one part of the very real "culture wars" waged by the CIA and its surrogates.

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