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02990aam a2200397 i 4500 001 4506D3BA13DC11E9AC86662E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190109010032 008 180702s2018 mau 000 0ceng 010 $a 2018013618 020 $a 0262536382 020 $a 9780262536387 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a P129 $b .W84 2018 082 00 $a 363.2/320973 $2 23 245 00 $a Writers under surveillance : $b the FBI files / $c edited by JPat Brown, B. C. D. Lipton, Michael Morisy ; foreword by Cory Doctorow. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 375 pages ; $c 27 cm. 500 $a Selected from FBI files obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made by the MuckRock news site team. 505 0 $a Hannah Arendt -- James Baldwin -- Ray Bradbury -- Truman Capote -- Tom Clancy -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Allen Ginsberg -- Ernest Hemingway -- Aldous Huxley -- Ken Kesey -- Norman Mailer -- Ayn Rand -- Susan Sontag -- Terry Southern -- Hunter S. Thompson -- Gore Vidal. 520 8 $a 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, and Hunter S. Thompson. Obtained with Freedom of Information Act requests by MuckRock, a nonprofit dedicated to freeing American history from the locked filing cabinets of government agencies, the files on these authors are surprisingly wide ranging; the investigations were as broad and varied as the authors' own works. James Baldwin, for example, was so openly antagonistic to the state's security apparatus that investigators followed his every move. Ray Bradbury, on the other hand, was likely unaware that the Bureau had any interest in his work. (Bradbury was a target because an informant warned that science fiction was a Soviet plot to weaken American resolve.) Ernest Hemingway, true to form, drunkenly called the FBI Nazis and sissies. The files have been edited for length and clarity, but beyond that everything in the book is pulled directly from investigatory files. 610 10 $a United States. $b Federal Bureau of Investigation $x Records and correspondence. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Governmental investigations $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 700 1 $a Brown, J. Patrick, $e editor. 700 1 $a Lipton, Beryl, $e editor. 700 1 $a Morisy, Michael, $e editor. 700 1 $a Doctorow, Cory, $e author of foreword. 730 0 $a MuckRock (Online) 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017015014.0 952 $l HYAX325 $d 20191105090532.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190109010351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4506D3BA13DC11E9AC86662E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search