Gimme Some Truth
Gimme Some Truth

Author: Jon Wiener

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0520222466

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Fascinating, engrossing, and at points hilarious and absurd, "Gimme Some Truth" documents the FBI surveillance of John Lennon in 1972 when the war in Vietnam was at its peak. 157 line drawings.

The FBI File on Steve Jobs
The FBI File on Steve Jobs

Author: The Federal Bureau of Investigation

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-20

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 162087251X

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Steven Paul Jobs (1955–2011) was a founder and leader of Apple Inc. (formerly Apple Computer Inc.) and one of the world’s most successful businessmen. In 1991, Jobs was considered for an appointed position on the U.S. President’s Export Council—a position he accepted after the FBI performed this extensive background check (totaling 191 pages). This release consists of the FBI’s 1991 background investigation of Jobs for that position and a 1985 investigation of a bomb threat against Apple. Declassified for the first time in February 2012, this is a must-have collector’s item. It includes: • Interviews with friends and family members • Stories of drug use • Allegations against his moral character Everyone with an interest in one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs will find this book revealing.

FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980
FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980

Author: José Angel Gutiérrez

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1793615810

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A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies, describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history of surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos in the United States of America.

Performing Truth
Performing Truth

Author: L.M. Bogad

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1000451313

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Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in what might be dry, dire, or depressing? How to surprise an audience and keep them alert? Collecting together the performance texts of international performance artist and activist L.M. Bogad, this book accompanies each script with essays that further explore that work's performance strategies. It also equips readers with specific resources and pedagogical tools to help those wishing to stage these pieces or create their own work to engage with similar topics. Bogad also provides "takeaways" for each piece, illustrating the challenges of its particular subject matter and how to overcome those challenges with innovations unique to performance art. This is a key guidebook for artists and theatre-makers facing the challenges of engaging with information in an era of fake news, propaganda bots, and the polarization of ideological spheres, as well as students and teachers taking on that challenge in theatre studies, performance studies and performing arts classrooms.

Surveillance in America
Surveillance in America

Author: Ivan Greenberg

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 0739172476

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Surveillance in America provides a historical exploration of FBI surveillance practices and policies since 1920 based on recently declassified FBI files. Using the new information available through these documents, Ivan Greenberg sheds light on the activities and beliefs of top FBI officials as they develop and implement surveillance practices. Paying particular attention to the uses of the media, Greenberg provides a thorough reconsideration of the Watergate scandal and the role of W. Mark Felt as "Deep Throat." He exposes new evidence which suggests that Felt led a faction at the FBI that worked together to bring down President Nixon. The book concludes with an in-depth treatment of surveillance practices since the year 2000. He considers the question of "surveillance as harassment" and looks at the further erosion of privacy. stemming from Obama's counter-terror policies which extend those of the Bush Administration's second term. The startling increase in surveillance since the events of September 11th, reveal the extent to which America is losing the battle for civil liberties.

On the Side of My People
On the Side of My People

Author: Louis A. DeCaro

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0814718647

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Recounts the life of Malcolm X, places it in the context of Black nationalist religion, and describes his conversions to the Black Muslim faith and to orthodox Islam and their effects on his teachings.

Malcolm X, African American Revolutionary
Malcolm X, African American Revolutionary

Author: Dennis D. Wainstock

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-10-27

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0786439343

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This biography, though it covers his early life and adulthood, focusses most prominently on Malcolm X's final years, which were largely dominated by his departure from the Nation of Islam and his conflict with Elijah Muhammad. Throughout, the author addresses a number of lingering issues, including the role of fellow prisoner John Elton Bembry in Malcolm's prison conversion; whether Malcolm decided to leave the Nation of Islam before he was suspended by Elijah Muhammad; whether he was seeking martyrdom; and the extent of the role that government agencies played in Malcolm X's assassination in 1965.