David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University’s Department of Society and Social Justice. He is the author of a number of books on the FBI and CIA, and has written articles for The Nation, Monthly Review, CounterPunch, Guardian and Le Monde. His work has been translated into five languages.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations and CodenamesIntroductionPart I: The Long View: Historical Perspectives of American Surveillance1. J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI’s Institutionalization of Surveillance2. 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 Taint4. The Dangers of Promoting Peace During Times of [Cold] War: Gene Weltfish, the FBI, & the 1949 Waldorf Astoria’s Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace5. Tribal Communism Under Fire: Archie Phinney and the FBI6. The FBI’s History of Undermining Legal Defenses: From Jury Panel Investigations to Defense Lawyer Surveillance Programs7. Agents of Apartheid: Ruth First and the FBI’s Historical Role of Enforcing InequalityPart III: Monitoring Pioneers and Public Intellectuals8. How the FBI Spied on Edward Said9. Seymour Melman: the FBI’s Persecution of the Demilitarization Movement10. Traces of FBI Efforts to Deport a Radical Voice: On Alexander Cockburn’s FBI File11. Medium Cool: Decades of FBI Surveillance of Haskell Wexler12. Blind Whistling Phreaks and the FBI’s Historical Reliance on Phone Company Criminality13. The FBI and Candy Man: Monitoring Fred Haley, A Voice of Reason During Times of Madness14. David W. Conde, Lost CIA Critic and Cold War SeerPart IV: Policing Global Inequality15. E. A. Hooton and the Biosocial Facts of American Capitalism16. Walt Whitman Rostow and FBI Attacks on Liberal Anti-Communism17. 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 States19. The FBI’s Pursuit of Saul Landau: Portrait of the Radical as a Young ManConclusion

'Few writers have done more than David Price to drag the secret history of America out of the shadows and into the clarifying light of public scrutiny. In a nation obsessed with secrets, the biggest and darkest secret of all is the one Price exposes here: the deviously surreptitious - and often illegal - lengths our own government has gone to surveil and disrupt the daily lives of its own citizens'