num_pages: 509
description: Here is one of the great stories of intellectual and artistic corruption by power, in a driving narrative full of brilliant personalities and swashbuckling hustlers. Frances Stoner Saunders' glittering, hard-edged prose sweeps the reader back to a time when politics was everything, and spies with money knew the price of culture.
language: English
title: Who Paid The Piper : The CIA And The Cultural Cold War
titlecomplete: Who Paid The Piper : The CIA And The Cultural Cold War
genres: Art, Politics, Cultural, Espionage, Art History, American History, Conspiracy Theories, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 566
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Gladstone Prize
publisher: Granta Books