The first complete history of the American surveillance state, from J. Edgar Hoover to Obama
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'Few writers have done more than David Price to drag the secret history of America out of the shadows and into the clarifying light of public scrutiny. In a nation obsessed with secrets, the biggest and darkest secret of all is the one Price exposes here: the deviously surreptitious - and often illegal - lengths our own government has gone to surveil and disrupt the daily lives of its own citizens' -- Jeffrey St. Clair, editor at 'CounterPunch' 'Wielding a finely-honed anthropological perspective and armed only with the Freedom of Information Act, David Price has spent decades of meticulous research in uncovering the sordid and often absurd history of American political surveillance. Rather than Orwell's fictional tales of Big Brother, his book makes extensive use of the files compiled by the FBI and its legions of informers to show how the realities of governmental monitoring and harassment impacted on the lives of law-abiding women and men whose words and deeds were deemed to threaten dominant power structures in American society' -- Michael Seltzer, Professor Emeritus at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway 'Relentlessly dissects the history of the American surveillance state, from the Palmer Raids to the Snowden Files and beyond. Prices razor-sharp analysis exposes the malignant tissue connecting Americas spy agencies to the forces of capital' -- Roberto J. González, Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at San José State University
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Codenames
Introduction
Part I: The Long View: Historical Perspectives of American Surveillance
1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBIs Institutionalization of Surveillance
2. Memory's Half-life: Notes on a Social History of Wiretapping in America.
3. The New Surveillance Normal: Government and Corporate Surveillance in the
Age of Global Capitalism.
Part II: Lanting Those with a Communist Taint
4. The Dangers of Promoting Peace During Times of [ Cold] War: Gene Weltfish,
the FBI, & the 1949 Waldorf Astorias Cultural and Scientific Conference for
World Peace
5. Tribal Communism Under Fire: Archie Phinney and the FBI
6. The FBIs History of Undermining Legal Defenses: From Jury Panel
Investigations to Defense Lawyer Surveillance Programs
7. Agents of Apartheid: Ruth First and the FBIs Historical Role of Enforcing
Inequality
Part III: Monitoring Pioneers and Public Intellectuals
8. How the FBI Spied on Edward Said
9. Seymour Melman: the FBIs Persecution of the Demilitarization Movement
10. Traces of FBI Efforts to Deport a Radical Voice: On Alexander Cockburns
FBI File
11. Medium Cool: Decades of FBI Surveillance of Haskell Wexler
12. Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBIs Historical Reliance on Phone
Company Criminality
13. The FBI and Candy Man: Monitoring Fred Haley, A Voice of Reason During
Times of Madness
14. David W. Conde, Lost CIA Critic and Cold War Seer
Part IV: Policing Global Inequality
15. E. A. Hooton and the Biosocial Facts of American Capitalism
16. Walt Whitman Rostow and FBI Attacks on Liberal Anti-Communism
17. André Gunder Frank, the FBI, and the Bureaucratic Exile of a Critical
Mind.
18. Angel Palerm and the FBI: Monitoring a Voice of Independence at the
Organization of American States
19. The FBIs Pursuit of Saul Landau: Portrait of the Radical as a Young Man
Conclusion
David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martins Universitys Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.
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