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In 1956, New Yorker writer Dwight Macdonald joined Encounter, a magazine secretly backed by American and British security agencies. He arrived in London just as British Influencers turned a young Existentialist named Colin Wilson into England's answer to Jean-Paul Sartre. Meanwhile, the CIA incited a youth rebellion in communist Hungary. We investigate the covert propaganda behind Operation Free Youth Action and Operation Anti-Sartre and the Outsider’s influence on Macdonald’s famous critique of Mass and Middlebrow Culture.
Shownotes: Carol Ann Gill is the author of Carol Ann, Sarah Roth wrote on Operation Focus, Hugh Wilford is the author of The Mighty Wurlitzer, Gary Lachman is the author of Beyond the Robot, Alfred Betschart writes on Sartre, Stefan Collini is the author of Absent Minds, Geoffrey Wheatcroft is the author of Absent Friends.
Not All Propaganda is Art 9: Freedom or Death
Not All Propaganda is Art 8: Signature Acoustique
Not All Propaganda is Art 7: Manufacturing Dissent
Not All Propaganda is Art 6: The Kitsch Debate
Not All Propaganda is Art 5: The Play's the Thing
Not All Propaganda is Art 4: Propagande Noire
Not All Propaganda is Art 3: The Man Who Was Thursday's Children
Not All Propaganda is Art 1: Operation Younger Brother
Not All Propaganda is Art BONUS CONTENT TRAILER: Propaganda Notes and Sources
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