Encounter at the End of the World

"An earlier and highly biased book on the CIA’s cultural activities, by Frances Stonor Saunders, was titled Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War. Wilford begs to differ with its premise, and he does so persuasively: 'The CIA might have tried to call the tune,' he writes, 'but the piper did not always play it, nor the audience dance to it.'"

Terry Teachout reviews Hugh Wilford's The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America in Commentary.