literature including joyce hemingway and also books on art history, economics psychology, sociology. it was described by one of its participants as a marshall plan for the mind. it deserves a full history. i got the cia documents in the regular mail to my home in northern virginia in august of 2012. it was a thrilling moment. what was most striking about the material was the enthusiasm of the officers writing about doctor zhivago and internal memos. here is the soviet russia division chief writing in july 1958 when the printing operation was already underway. quote, pasternak's humanistic message that every person is an title to a private life and deserves respect as a human being irrespective of the extent of his political loyalty, our contributions to the state pose a fundamental challenge to the soviet advocate sacrifice of the individual to the communist system. there is no call to revolt against the regime and an awful. but the heresy of which doctor zhivago preaches political passivity is fundamental. pasternak suggests that the small unimportant people that remain passive to t

hemingway, mailer. guess who was the best? be joyce carol oates. a fantastic book on boxing.and she does the great dempsey in that as well. and, of course, he's ricker's meal ticket. he's a hard hitter from the western mountain country, he turns boxing into a million dollar industry. $5 million gates at new york city and promoted -- the next million dollar gate is ali/frazier. babe ruth from the baltimore dock yards, he turns baseball from small ball bunt and hit and run things like that, into long ball. and like dempsey, he's a slugger. kind of strange, there's lou gehrig, born in new york, columbia lou there's gene tunney who beat t the great dempsey, a native new yorker from greenwich village, it was always the big hitters, the outsiders, the ruths and the dempseys who captured the crowds. others came in with a lot of money. joejoe paterson from chicago, he's a breakaway. a one-time socialist, the rebel in the family. he comes to new york city in 1919, and he found the daily news on a shoe string. six years later it's the best-selling newspaper in the world, not just in ne

hemingway, mailer. guess who was the best? be joyce carol oates. a fantastic book on boxing.and she does the great dempsey in that as well. and, of course, he's ricker's meal ticket. he's a hard hitter from the western mountain country, he turns boxing into a million dollar industry. $5 million gates at new york city and promoted -- the next million dollar gate is ali/frazier. babe ruth from the baltimore dock yards, he turns baseball from small ball bunt and hit and run things like that, into long ball. and like dempsey, he's a slugger. kind of strange, there's lou gehrig, born in new york, columbia lou there's gene tunney who beat t the great dempsey, a native new yorker from greenwich village, it was always the big hitters, the outsiders, the ruths and the dempseys who captured the crowds. others came in with a lot of money. joejoe paterson from chicago, he's a breakaway. a one-time socialist, the rebel in the family. he comes to new york city in 1919, and he found the daily news on a shoe string. six years later it's the best-selling newspaper in the world, not just in ne