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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Flights, Finks and Secret History with Joel Whitney

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Joel Whitney’s book Finks is a seminal book about American intellectuals and American security agencies, mainly because it illuminates the real story behind the CIA’s involvement with the founding of a little magazine called The Paris Review which hit the scene in the early 1950s at the height of the Cold War.

In Joel Whitney’s new book Flights, he continues his historical excavations - more stories about writers intellectuals and activists who found themselves in the cross hairs of American security agencies like the CIA and the FBI.


Your host discusses both books with Joel Whitney and the discipline of secret history itself.

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Joel Whitney's book, Fink's book Fink's is one of these seminal books about American intellectuals and American

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security agencies, mainly because it illuminates the real story behind the

1:20.2

CIA's involvement with the founding of a little magazine called The Paris Review, which hit the

1:26.2

scene in the early 1950s at the height of the Cold War. In his new book, Flights, Joel Whitney tells us about other writers, intellectuals, and activists

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who found themselves in the crosshairs of the American security establishment.

1:43.0

Individuals like Lorraine Hansberry,

1:45.0

Paul Robeson, Leonard Peltier,

1:47.5

Angela Davis, and Malcolm X.

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