The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Garrow, David J - 1983

Penguin Books, 1983. 10th printing this edition.. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Cover scuffing, minor top right crease. Smooth spine. Underlining, section bracketing in blue ink.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Notes: p.229-311. Index. Audience: General/trade. 1st published in U.S. 1981, W.W. Norton, with subtitle "From 'Solo' to Memphis". Author reveals the FBI's relentless surveillance of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. With J Edgar Hoover as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's director for decades, the turbulent 1960s and 1970s brought out Hoover's paranoid worst. He was convinced King was a Communist tool, a sexual degenerate, then a dangerous political radical. Garrow illustrates the dangerous FBI abuses of power for a decade--electronic eavesdropping, an army of paid informants, and an orchestrated letter-writing campaign. Though not a subject of this study, these FBI tactics continued into the 1970s against the anti-Vietnam War Movement.