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Greg Barnhisel

Greg Barnhisel is professor of English at Duquesne University. He is the author of many scholarly books and articles, including Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (Columbia University Press, 2015), and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and the New Republic. He is currently completing a biography of the professor and spy Norman Holmes Pearson. icon

Freedom’s Stakes

By Greg Barnhisel

Postwar culture was divided between “freedom” and “totalitarianism.” Or was it?

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