Cold War Brokers is an outstanding contribution to the transnational history of the Cold War era. It joins a growing body of scholarship demonstrating that, while the period imposed significant limitations on the mobility of people and ideas, there was also substantial cooperation across the systemic divide between the capitalist and socialist worlds. Drawing on previously unused archival sources, Cold War Brokers provides a nuanced and insightful overview of the developments between Hungary and the United States, presented in a way that will be highly relevant to any scholar working on Cold War cultural exchanges.

Simo Mikkonen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

This is a spectacular book: grounded in deep research, Cold War Brokers reveals the larger logic of East-West academic exchange while never losing sight of its unique, often tantalizingly colorful Hungarian actors. As scholars, music pedagogues, and writers interacted with their American hosts, they creatively navigated antagonistic yet interconnected political and intellectual truth regimes. Exceptional work that illuminates both the universal and the particular.

Theodora Dragostinova, The Ohio State University, USA