Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors /

Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors / by Herbert Mitgang.

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Recounts the fifty year espionage campaign waged by intelligence agencies against famed American writers.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Mitgang, Herbert
Corporate Author: Mazal Holocaust Collection
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : D.I. Fine, ©1988.
Subjects:
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Authors, American > 20th century > Political and social views.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Police patrol > United States > Surveillance operations.
Censorship > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature.
Authors, American > Political and social views.
Censorship.
Police patrol > Surveillance operations.
Politics and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The right of privacy
  • Policing America's writers: Agent "T-10" ; The professionals ; In the web : E.B. White ; Half-freedom files
  • The Nobel laureates: Sinclair Lewis ; Pearl S. Buck ; William Faulkner ; Ernest Hemingway ; John Steinbeck ; Thomas Mann
  • Revered authors: Carl Sandburg ; Theodore Dreiser ; John Dos Passos ; Thomas Wolfe ; Dorothy Parker ; John O'Hara
  • Sleuthing the storytellers: Nelson Algren ; Dashiell Hammett ; Irwin Shaw ; Truman Capote ; A.J. Liebling
  • Troublemaking playwrights: Thornton Wilder ; Robert Sherwood ; Elmer Rice ; Maxwell Anderson ; William Saroyan ; Lillian Hellman ; Tennessee Williams
  • Poets and essayists: Archibald MacLeish ; Robert Lowell ; Robert Frost ; W.H. Auden ; H.L. Mencken ; Edmund Wilson
  • Foreign authors: Stephen Spender ; Graham Greene ; Hannah Arendt ; Aldous Huxley ; Ignazio Silone
  • Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
  • Seeing red : Rex Stout: The League's stand ; Rex Stout, "alleged radical"
  • Infiltrating the guilds: Spying on meetings ; The Radio Writers Guild ; A wild-goose chase
  • Among those present ... : John Kenneth Galbraith ; William H. (Bill) Mauldin ; Norman Mailer ; Allen Ginsberg
  • Watching artists: Alexander Calder ; Ben Shahn ; Georgia O'Keeffe ; Henry Moore
  • Rules of the game: Weakening the guidelines ; Expunging records ; Professor Kimball vindicated
  • Freedom to create: An alien state.

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