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William J. Maxwell

Total Literary Awareness: How the FBI Pre-read African American WritingFrom the Print

By William J. Maxwell × Criticism

When the FBI was fed the minutes of editorial board meetings at Time and Life, Fortune and Look, the Reader’s Digest and the Daily Worker, points along the full spectrum of U.S. print culture were opened to Bureau pre-awareness.