Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgements 1
5. Foreword 3
6. Chapter 1 Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker 7
7. Chapter 2 Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings 23
8. Chapter 3 The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition 39
9. Chapter 4 The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books 55
10. Chapter 5 The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s 73
11. Chapter 6 Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support 87
12. Chapter 7 New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts 103
13. Chapter 8 The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council 113
14. Chapter 9 A Lasting Enemy 125
15. Chapter 10 The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings, and Attacks 207
16. Chapter 11 The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958–1959 233
17. Chapter 12 Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Personto- Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings 255
18. Chapter 13 The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna 295
19. Chapter 14 Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country 309
20. Chapter 15 Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 347
21. Chapter 16 Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism 399
22. Chapter 17 Letters from Romania Under the Ceauşescu Regime 439
23. Chapter 18 Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship 481
24. Chapter 19 The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR 505
25. Conclusion The Impact of the Book Distribution Project and its Contribution to the Ideological Victory of the West 521
26. Bibliography 527
27. Subject Index 537
28. Index of Names 544