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

Austin: University of Texas Press. Fine in Fine dj. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A companion piece to the author's 1999 memoir, "Hollywood Exile," this book focuses specifically on the FBI's surveillance of him over the course of twenty-six years. "Drawing on his FBI file of over 300 pages, which he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, he traces how to Bureau followed him from Hollywood to Mexico, Paris, London, Rome, and even aboard a Dutch freighter as he created an unusually successful, albeit uncredited, career as a screenwriter and producer during the blacklist years." .