James Baldwin: the FBI file / edited and with an introduction and notes by William J. Maxwell.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Arcade Publishing, c2017.Edition: 1st edDescription: 430 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781628727371
- 1628727373
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History -- 20th century
- African American authors -- Biography
- African American gay men -- Biography
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies
- 818/.5409 B 23
- PS3552.A45 Z822 2017
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | PS 3552 JAM 2018 | 1 | Available | 230611 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Baldwin and his file after Black Lives Matter -- James Baldwin's FBI file, sampled and explained.
"Available in book form for the first time, the FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer. Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1,884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights era. This collection of once-secret documents, never before published in book form, captures the FBI's anxious tracking of Baldwin's writings, phone conversations, and sexual habits--and Baldwin's defiant efforts to spy back at Hoover and his G-men. ... [R]eproduces over one hundred original FBI records, selected by the noted literary historian whose award-winning book, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature, brought renewed attention to bureau surveillance. William J. Maxwell also provides a substantial introduction and running commentaries that orient the reader and offer historical context, making this book a revealing look at a crucial slice of the American past"-- Provided by publisher.
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