American Committee for Cultural Freedom

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The American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF) was the U.S. affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization that, during the Cold War, sought to encourage intellectuals to be critical of the Soviet Union and Communism. CCF was funded by the CIA.

The dominant figure in the organization was Sidney Hook. Its 600-strong membership ranged from Jackson Pollack and Alexander Calder to Dwight Macdonald and Mary McCarthy, Max Eastman and James Burnham, and Whittaker Chambers.

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• A Short History of the New York Intellectuals on PBS's Arguing the World
• American Institute of Physics
• Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
• "Radical History" in The New Criterion (June 2002)
• "Revising the History of Cold War Liberals" in New Politics (Winter 2000)
• "The Mood of Three Generations" in The End of Ideology (2000)

• "http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5D9123AF934A1575BC0A96F948260&sec=&pagewanted=print Cranky Integrity on the Left]" in The New York Times (August 27, 1989)