The American surveillance state : how the U.S. spies on dissent / David H. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, David H., 1960- author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History.

United States.

Electronic surveillance--United States--History--20th century.

Electronic surveillance.

Electronic surveillance--United States--History--21st century.

Internal security--United States--History--20th century.

Internal security.

Internal security--United States--History--21st century.

Political crimes and offenses--United States--History--20th century.

Political crimes and offenses.

Political crimes and offenses--United States--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages.)

Other Title:

American surveillance state : how the United States spies on dissent

Place of Publication:

London ; Las Vegas, NV : Pluto Press, 2022.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgmetns

Abbreviations and codenames

Introduction: Contextualizing old patterns and new shifts in American surveillance.

Part I. The long view : historical persepctives of American surveillance: 1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's 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, and the 1949 Waldorf Astoria's Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace

5. Tribal communism under fire : Archie Phinney and the FBI

6. The FBI's history of undermining legal defences : from jury panel investigations to defense lawyer surveillance programs

7. Agents of apartheid : Ruth First and the FBI's historical role of enforcing inequality.

Part III. Monitoring pioneers and public intellectuals: 8. How the FBI spied on Edward Said

9. Seymour Melman and the FBI's persecution of the demilitarization movement

10. Traces of FBI efforts to deport a radical voice : on Alexander Cockburn's FBI file

11. Medium cool : decades of the FBI's surveillance of Haskell Wexler

12. Blind whistling phreaks and the FBI's 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 FBI's pursuit of Saul Landau : portrait of the radical as a young man.

Conclusion: Unbroken chain : connecting seven decades of American surveillance and harassment of progressives, activists, visionaries, and intellectuals - Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-345) and index.

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Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780745346045 (electronic bk.)

0745346049 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40031483702

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