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Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors
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Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors / by Herbert Mitgang.
ISBN
9781556110771
1556110774
Published
New York : D.I. Fine, ©1988.
Physical Description
331 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Recounts the fifty year espionage campaign waged by intelligence agencies against famed American writers.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 04, 1988
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-319) and index.
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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