Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files (Mit Press) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262536382 ISBN 13: 9780262536387

Publisher: The MIT Press, 2018

Synopsis

FBI files on writers with dangerous ideas, including Hannah Arendt, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin.

About this title

About the Author:

JPat Brown is Executive Editor of MuckRock.

Review:

The only surprise missing from this important book is that the FBI failed to investigate Santa Claus for wearing red. Read this book and be overwhelmed by the FBI's invasion of our lives.

―Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations

Writers Under Surveillance is a reminder that ideas are the foundation of power and that it is often those who influence the ideas of others that the government attempts to watch, harass, or silence. It is an indispensable collection showing us, page by page, that freedom is fragile.

―DeRay Mckesson, host, Pod Save the People; and cofounder, Campaign Zero

The leaks, lies, and ill-gotten confessions documented in Writers Under Surveillance double as a lively and revealing alternative history of twentieth-century U.S. literature. The collection proves that the national security state chased and anthologized the cutting edge of American writing all the way from Ernest Hemingway to Susan Sontag, modernism to postmodernism, libertarianism to communism, and back again.

―William J. Maxwell, Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis, author of F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, and editor of James Baldwin: The FBI File.

About this edition

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0262536382
• ISBN 13: 9780262536387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 393
• Editor: Brown Jpat, Lipton B. C. D., Morisy Michael