The Einstein file : the FBI's secret war against the world's most famous scientist / Fred Jerome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerome, Fred, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Political and social views.

Einstein, Albert.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

United States.

Political and social views.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal : Baraka Books, [2018]

Summary:

A look at how the FBI, with the help of other government agencies, set out to collect information to use against Einstein.

Contents:

Part I Discovering America

1 "What's This, an Inquisition?" p. 33

2 Flashback p. 44

3 Refugee p. 54

4 Banned from the Bomb p. 66

Part II Postwar Fallout

5 Emergency Committee p. 85

6 American Crusade to End Lynching p. 99

7 The Einstein Watch p. 115

8 Right Time p. 123

Part III Guilt by Associations

9 The List p. 149

10 Du Bois and Robeson p. 154

11 How Red? p. 165

Part IV Operation "Get Einstein"

12 "Eleanor Could Have Triggered It..." p. 181

13 Spy Hunt: Fuchs p. 189

14 Far Out p. 210

15 Spy Hunt 2: Operation Cable-Drop p. 216

16 "Undesirable Alien" p. 239

Part V Denouement

17 Turning Tides p. 253

18 The Unraveling p. 275

19 Einstein the Spy? p. 285.

Notes:

Previously released by St. Martin's Press in 2002 with subtitle: J. Edgar Hoover's secret war against the world's most famous scientist.

"Legal deposit, 2nd quarter 2018"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (paes 373-383) and index.

ISBN:

9781771861304

1771861304

OCLC:

1006312303

Publisher Number:

99976556333