In this definitive sourcebook on a disgraceful chapter in American history, Robins shows how the FBI far exceeded its proper investigative role to wage war against American writers.
"The definitive file on the FBI's files on writers and journalists." --Victor Navasky
"Required reading for anyone interested in modern American intellectual history." --David Traxel, The New York Times Book Review
"An important... entertaining book." --Alan Wolfe, The Washington Post
Author(s): Natalie S. Robins
Edition: 1
Publisher: William Morrow
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 451 (520)
City: New York
Tags: FBI, COINTELPRO, 1960s, 60s, Counterculture, Revolution, Underground press, Freedom of speech, Repression, Censorship, State control, Propaganda, Politics, Socialism, Obscenity, Moral Panic, Parapolitics
Prologue
The Files
The Formal Witnesses
Part One: The Russian Revolution and World War I
1. Before Hoover
2. The Arrival of Hoover
Part Two: The 1920s: Undeclared Wars, the Rise of Fascism, and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
3. The Arrival of New Aliens: 1920-1929
Part Three: The Spanish Civil War
4. Images in Their Minds
5. The Search for New Aliens—the 1930s
6. “A Little Bit in Awe of Them”
7. The “Friendlies”
8. The “Friendlies,” Continued
9. The “Unfriendlies”
10. The “Unfriendlies,” Continued
Part Four: World War II and the Cold War
11. A Broader Net
12. Pound, Boyle, Hecht, and Stein
13. Hemingway, Wilder, Sherwood, MacLeish,
and Cowley
14. Rukeyser, Herbst, Porter, and Fast
15. Wouk, Cozzens, Mitford, Parker,
Hammett, Heilman, and Lowell
Part Five: McCarthy’s War and the Korean War
16. Sinister Influences
17. Matthiessen, Untermeyer, Hughes,
and Wright
18. Adams, Shapiro, and Williams
19. Trilling, Agee, Capote, Gardner, and Miller
Part Six: The Continuing Cold War and the Vietnam War
20. The 1960s Aliens
21. Mailer, Ginsberg, and Frank
22. Baldwin, Baraka, Schwartz, Roethke,
Stout, Williams, Paley, and Doctorow
Part Seven: After Hoover
23. A Broader Outlook: 1970-Present
24. Spies in the Stacks
Part Eight: Preparing for the 2000s: Is the Past Past?
25. “Most of the Damage Was Invisible”
Appendix A: Writers, Editors, Agents, and Publishers Indexed by the FBI Because They Signed Civil Rights and/or Antiwar Protests During the 1960s
Appendix B: Additional Files
Appendix C: An Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
