From Nashua and Berlin to Pearl Harbor -- Nashua (New Hampshire) and Dartmouth College -- Student in Weimar Germany -- Reporting on Europe and Hitler -- Rescue from the Holocaust -- Defeating and Rebuilding Germany -- War Service in Europe -- Occupied Germany -- Working for U.S. Military Government -- Back with the New York Times -- Public Opinion and High Politics in Semisovereign West Germany -- Joining U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy -- Stone's German-American Network -- McCloy's "Harry Hopkins" -- Supporting a Democratic Press -- Mass Society and the Threat of Totalitarianism -- Elites and Masses -- Visions of America -- Totalitarian Dictatorships -- The Debate on Culture in America -- Western Intellectuals and the Cold Culture Wars of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) -- Mass Culture and the Congress for Cultural Freedom -- Communists and Ex-Communists -- Rallying the Anti-Soviet Left -- The Growth of the CCF Empire -- Internationalizing the Ford Foundation -- The Biggest Philanthropic Organization in the World -- The Conditions of Peace Project -- The Struggle for a European Program -- Exporting American Culture -- Philanthropy and Diplomacy -- Ford's International Program -- Looking East -- Midwife to European Philanthropy -- Cultural and Political Investments -- The CIA, the Ford Foundation, and the Demise of the CCF Empire -- The U.S. Government and the Funding of Culture -- The Ford Foundation's Washington Connections -- Rescuing the CCF -- Scandal and Collapse
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