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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779003403321

Autore

Greenberg Ivan <1962->

Titolo

Surveillance in America [[electronic resource] ] : critical analysis of the FBI, 1920 to the present / / Ivan Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

1-280-76892-4

9786613679697

0-7391-7248-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

363.250973

Soggetti

Subversive activities - United States - History

Criminal investigation - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ch01. A Class Analysis of Early FBI Spying; Ch02. Manipulating the Media; Ch03. Threatening Historians; Threatening Historians; Photospread; Ch04. The Ideology of the FBI; Ch05. The Deep Throat Faction; Ch06. Surveillance Society Policing; Ch07. Postscript: The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Surveillance in America is a study of FBI surveillance practices and policies since 1920 based on recently declassified FBI files. This wide-ranging study looks at such subjects as the media, academic historians, the Watergate crisis, and surveillance of the American working class.