The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr Author:David J. Garrow With explosive new evidence, David J. Garrow reveals the FBI's relentless surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. — J. Edgar Hoover's perception of the civil rights leader first as a Communist tool, then as a sexual degenerate, and finally as a dangerous political radical led to horrendous abuses of power. Mr. Garrow chronicles a decade o... more »f vicious FBI harrassment that employed electronic eaves-dropping devices, an army of paid informants, and a carefully orchestrated letter-writing campaign -- all against one man.
First published in 1981 by W.W. Norton, and republished by Penguin Books in 1983.« less