The American surveillance state how the US spies on dissent /

"When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged. Now, in our post-9/11 world, it's accepted that corporations are vested with human rights, and government agencies and corporations use computers to monitor our private lives. David H. Price pulls back...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Price, David H., 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Las Vegas, NV : Pluto Press, 2022.
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > History.
États-Unis. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > Histoire.
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation
1900-2099
Electronic surveillance > United States > History > 20th century.
Electronic surveillance > United States > History > 21st century.
Internal security > United States > History > 20th century.
Internal security > United States > History > 21st century.
Political crimes and offenses > United States > History > 20th century.
Political crimes and offenses > United States > History > 21st century.
Surveillance électronique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Surveillance électronique > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Crimes et délits politiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Crimes et délits politiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Electronic surveillance
Internal security
Political crimes and offenses
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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