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Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Updated Edition) by Penny Von Eschen Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-674-02260-2 / 0674022602 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02260-7 / 9780674022607 At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Co |