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 Hanley, 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 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