Paul E. Feffer
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Paul E. Feffer (President, Feffer & Simons Inc.) A member of the National Strategy Information Center. Feffer was appointed to to draft a set of policy recommendations on the 'Book Gap', this was a percieved situation whereby the US National Security Council and the US Information Agency (USAID) felt that American books needed to combat the ideas and philosophies of other societies, particularly the then Soviet Union. Feffer chaired a study of 40 US publishers, librarians, lawyers and government officials under the auspices of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Forum (HDRF) sponsored by USAID.[1]
Resources
For further information, see relevant NeoCon Europe page Paul E. Feffer
References
- ↑ Hendrik Edelman (1986) Book Review, Publishing Research Quarterly.This notes that:"Paradoxically, the report's leitmotif involves subsidizing the export of American books to get exposure for their free-world political and economic philosophy."
