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Not All Propaganda is Art 2: Outsider Influence

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

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The Influence of Encounter Magazine

This chapter discusses how Encounter magazine, secretly funded by the CIA, played a role in influencing intellectual opinion in 1956. It explores the magazine's interest in the coffee bar boom in London's Soho and its investigation into the different coffee societies and artists. The chapter also introduces Dwight McDonald's plan to write a book about the dangers of mass culture.

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