The Big Brother book of lists

by Robert Ellis Smith, David Crook, Deborah Caulfield

Including Notes, Quotes, Anecdotes, Glossaries, and Chronologies That Prove 1984 IS FINALLY HERE!

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it includes some data about mind control and suppression of dissent in Russia, the book is largely limited to information about surveillance and social control in the United States. Moreover, there are instances in which some additional commentary might be useful. Daniel Ellsburg, for instance, is mentioned in several of the lists, but (for me, at least) the book does not satisfactorily explain who this person is, or why the Nixon government would have been interested in him. As well, the book could use an index. A number of names recur several times in the book, and it would be useful, the third or fourth time you see Howard Hunt mentioned, to be able easily to find those passages in which he was mentioned previously.

However, the book is useful for the information it includes that one does not find in other works exploring social control, such as lists of books banned by schools or lists of newscasters on whom the FBI kept files.

Acquired Jul 28, 1998
Corner Stone Book Shop, Plattsburgh NY