Foreword. Why and What
JFK, the Artist, and "Free Societies" : A Cold War Myth
Nicolas Nabokov and the Cultural Cold War
Lines of Battle : The Case for Stravinsky;
The Case against Shostakovich
CIA Cultural Battlegrounds : New York and Paris
Survival Strategies : Stravinsky and Shostakovich
Survival Strategies : Nicolas Nabokov
Cold War Music, East and West
Enter Cultural Exchange
Summing Up : Culture, the State, and the "Propaganda of Freedom"
Afterword. The Arts, National Purpose, and the Pandemic.