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4210187The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-fbi-and-martin-luther-king--jr-9781504011532/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3633276/dbce135c-c6cb-4acc-997a-6fa7eeb2b7cc.jpg?v=638385655432200000184212MXNOpen Road MediaInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>The author of <em>Bearing the Cross</em>, the Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the governments massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader</strong></p><p>When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history. Sparked by informant reports of Kings alleged involvement with communists, the FBI amassed a trove of information on the civil rights leader. Their findings failed to turn up any evidence of communist influence, but they did expose sensitive aspects of Kings personal life that the FBI went on to use in its attempts to mar his public image.</p><p>Based on meticulous research into the agencys surveillance records, historian David Garrow illustrates how the FBI followed Kings movements throughout the country, bugging his hotel rooms and tapping his phones wherever he went, in an obsessive quest to destroy his growing influence. Garrow uncovers the voyeurism and racism within J. Edgar Hoovers FBI while unmasking Hoovers personal desire to destroy King. The spying only intensified once King publicly denounced the Vietnam War, and the FBI continued to surveil him until his death.</p><p><em>The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.</em> clearly demonstrates an unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI and the government as a whole.</p>...4146245The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.184212https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-fbi-and-martin-luther-king--jr-9781504011532/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3633276/dbce135c-c6cb-4acc-997a-6fa7eeb2b7cc.jpg?v=638385655432200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20159781504011532_W3siaWQiOiJhNzVlMDQwYi0xYjkzLTQwYmUtYmVmZC00N2MwNWYxMTA2YTciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjIxMiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjI4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE4NCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMTFUMTE6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781504011532_<p><strong>The author of <em>Bearing the Cross</em>, the Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the governments massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader</strong></p><p>When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history. Sparked by informant reports of Kings alleged involvement with communists, the FBI amassed a trove of information on the civil rights leader. Their findings failed to turn up any evidence of communist influence, but they did expose sensitive aspects of Kings personal life that the FBI went on to use in its attempts to mar his public image.</p><p>Based on meticulous research into the agencys surveillance records, historian David Garrow illustrates how the FBI followed Kings movements throughout the country, bugging his hotel rooms and tapping his phones wherever he went, in an obsessive quest to destroy his growing influence. Garrow uncovers the voyeurism and racism within J. Edgar Hoovers FBI while unmasking Hoovers personal desire to destroy King. The spying only intensified once King publicly denounced the Vietnam War, and the FBI continued to surveil him until his death.</p><p><em>The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.</em> clearly demonstrates an unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI and the government as a whole.</p>...9781504011532_Open Road Medialibro_electonico_f4debe5b-7a08-36b8-916b-2807293369e3_9781504011532;9781504011532_9781504011532David J.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-ada735a3-7ebc-469a-9ea6-9093f3874a44.epub2015-02-17T00:00:00+00:00Open Road Media