How long does it take to read Who Paid the Piper??
Who Paid the Piper? by Frances Stonor Saunders takes about 9 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1905. 538 pages, about 147,950 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a book that draws together recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews, the author narrates the extraordinary story of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West became instruments of the American government. The CIA's front organizations and the philanthropic foundations that channeled its money also organized conferences, founded magazines, ran congresses, mounted exhibitions, arranged concerts, and flew symphony orchestras around the world." "Many of the period's foremost intellectuals and artists appear in the book: Isaiah Berlin, Clement Greenberg, Sidney Hook, Arthur Koestler, Irving Kristol, Robert Lowell, Henry Luce, Andre Malraux, Mary McCarthy, Reinhold Neibuhr, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Stephen Spender, among others. While many were unwitting participants in the CIA's cultural operation, others were willing collaborators."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Arts, Arts, Cold War, Cultural policy, Freedom and art, Influence
