Culture and ideas were central to the confrontation between the two Cold War camps. In the great battle for “the hearts and minds of the people” called the Cultural Cold War, the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) has been the most sophisticated, impressive and successful weapon of the Western world. The book by Artis Bournazos tells its fascinating story, tracing the paths of liberal anti-communism and the non-Communist Left's alliance with the American state. It also highlights the thwarted history of the Greek CCF, exploring why the organization's meeting with Greek intellectuals and politicians, conservative and liberal, was barren for both sides. Wandering through the vagaries of Cold War intellectual life reveals the multiple nuances of anti-communism, the gap between liberal progressive anti-communists and intellectuals of the “state of the nationalists”, the difficulties of modernist ideology in 1950s Greece, and its importance the autonomy of the Centre and the rupture with nationalism, in the sphere of the intelligentsia and the arts, during the explosive 1960s.