F.B. Eyes : How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature / William J. Maxwell.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2015.

xv, 367 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 25 cm

Published by Princeton University Press.

Third printing, first paperback printing, 2017.

This book has been composed in Minion Pro and Ideal Sans.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

The Birth of the Bureau, Coupled with the Birth of J. Edgar Hoover, Ensured the FBI's Attention to African American Literature -- The FBI's Aggressive Filing and Long Study of African American Writers Was Tightly Bound to the Agency's Successful Evolution under Hoover -- The FBI Is Perhaps the Most Dedicated and Influential Forgotten Critic of African American Literature -- The FBI Helped to Define the Twentieth-Century Black Atlantic, Both Blocking and Forcing Its Flows -- Consciousness of FBI Ghostreading Fills a Deep and Characteristic Vein of African American Literature.

Cover art © James Wechsler, Freedom of Information: Paul Robeson, 3.124, 2006. Acrylic and India ink on paper, 28″ × 20.″ Cover design by Pamela Schnitter.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])