The American Surveillance State : How the U. S. Spies on Dissent / David H. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, David H., 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pluto Press, [2022]

Biography/History:

"David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin's University's Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages"--Back cover.

Summary:

The first complete history of the American surveillance state, from J. Edgar Hoover to Obama.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and codenames

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

Part I. The long view : historical perspectives 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 defenses : 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:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745346038

0745346030

9780745346045

0745346049