Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power Book

Preface ix

Map: Berkeley in the 1960s x

Prologue: A Meeting at the Governor's Mansion 3

Part 1 The FBI on Campus

1 Spies in the Hills 11

2 The Responsibilities Program 28

3 The Undertaker 36

4 The Rise of Clark Kerr 44

5 The Essay Question 64

6 Protest at City Hall 77

7 Communist Target-Youth 88

8 The Trial of Robert Meisenbach 100

9 An Eye-opener 112

10 The FBI Story 127

Part 2 Student Radicals

11 The Police Car 153

12 The Free Speech Movement 172

13 A Leak to the Press 198

14 Sit-in at Sproul Hall 216

15 No Evidence 232

16 An Angry Young Man 242

17 Vietnam Day 260

Part 3 The Rise of Reagan

18 The Governor's Race 291

19 The Peace Trip Dance 305

20 Sources on Campus 326

21 Landslide 347

22 Fired with Enthusiasm 368

23 Obey the Rules 379

24 A Key Activist 406

25 At Bayonet Point 418

26 People's Park 447

Epilogue: The Aftermath 489

Appendix: My Fight for the FBI Files 505

Notes 513

Selected Bibliography 677

Documents, Interviews, and Other Sources 689

Acknowledgments 703

Index 707

A photographic insert follows page 250