The Gordon File: A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Years of FBI Surveillance

by Bernard Gordon

Book Overview

For twenty-six years, the FBI devoted countless hours of staff time and thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars to the surveillance of an American citizen named Bernard Gordon. Given the lavish use of resources, one might assume this man was a threat to national security or perhaps a kingpin of organized crime--not a Hollywood screenwriter whose most subversive act was joining the Communist Party during the 1940s when we were allied with the USSR in a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292719558
• ISBN13: 9780292719552
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"