Apologia
Preface: 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
Appendix A: Nicolas Nabokov, "The Case of Dmitri Shostakovitch" (1943)
Appendix B: President John F. Kennedy/Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Amherst Speech (1963)
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index