Code Name Puritan - Norman Holmes Pearson At Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, American Power

"Norman Holmes Pearson was a scholar and a spy. His scholarship brought him close to poets like Hilda Doolittle, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and W. H. Auden. But he also was close to the CIA, where he sponsored the careers of ambitious young men like James Jesus Angleton, the eventual director of counterintelligence during the cold war. Pearson's conception of American Studies meshed with the agendas of the CIA and other agencies that promoted American culture to the world. Greg Barnhisel gives us a clear and thorough understanding of the unassuming Pearson, a linchpin of America's cold war culture"--

About the author

Greg Barnhisel is professor of English at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy and James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of Ezra Pound, as well as editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures, Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War, and the scholarly journal Book History.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Barnhisel
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9780226647203
• ISBN: 978-0-226-64720-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Education, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: general, military history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Military intelligence, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, HISTORY / Military / Intelligence & Espionage