Writers Under Surveillance
The FBI Files
$53.74
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2018
Summary
FBI files on writers with dangerous ideas, including Hannah Arendt, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin.
Writers are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them-to watch them, follow them, start files on them. Writers under Surveillance gathers some of these files, giving readers a surveillance-state perspective on writers including Hannah Arendt, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262536387 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262536382 |
| Author: | B.C.D. Lipton, Michael Morisy, Cory Doctorow |
| Publisher: | Mit Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 838g |
| Dimensions: | 266mm x 205mm |
| Series: | Writers Under Surveillance |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Writers under Surveillance is a quaint collection, charmingly reproducing the documents in facsimile, typewritten, stamped and annotated.
-London Review of Books …in Writers Under Surveillance: The FBI Files, we get a look at some of the facts and hearsay that was gathered on 16 prominent authors. It’s a fascinating and at times hilarious book. You could argue that it’s an important one, too.
-Daily Beast
About The Author
B.C.D. Lipton
JPat Brown is Executive Editor of MuckRock. B. C. D. Lipton is Senior Reporter at MuckRock. Michael Morisy is cofounder of MuckRock.
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