Description: New evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond
Review Quotes: 'Wielding a finely-honed anthropological perspective and armed only with the Freedom of Information Act, David Price has spent decades of meticulous research in uncovering the sordid and often absurd history of American political surveillance. Rather than the Orwell's fictional tales of Big Brother, his book makes extensive use of the files compiled by the FBI and its legions of informers to show how the realities of governmental monitoring and harassment impacted on the lives of law- abiding women and men whose words and deeds were deemed to threaten dominant power structures in American society'
Michael Seltzer, Professor Emeritus at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway