Introduction by Mark Kramer Acknowledgements Foreword Chapter 1. Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker Chapter 2. Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings Chapter 3. The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition Chapter 4. The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books… Chapter 5. The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s Chapter 6. Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support Chapter 7. New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts Chapter 8. The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council Chapter 9. A Lasting Enemy Part I: The Censors 1956 to 1968 Part II: The Censors 1969 to 1973 Chapter 10. The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings, and Attacks Chapter 11. The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958–1959 Chapter 12. Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Person-to-Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings Chapter 13. The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna Chapter 14. Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country Chapter 15. Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 Chapter 16. Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism Chapter 17. Letters from Romania Under the Ceausescu Regime Chapter 18. Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship Chapter 19. The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR Conclusion The Impact of the Book Distribution Project and its Contribution to the Ideological Victory of the West Bibliography Appendix