Concerned Citizen: The FBI’s Anarchist Cookbook Dossier (NOT FOR WHOLESALE)

When William Powell’s infamous publication The Anarchist Cookbook (1971) drew the attention of the FBI, agents were assigned to track which stores sold the book and to find out if William Powell was a pseudonym. In 2010, the FBI released the bulk of its investigative file on The Anarchist Cookbook – it is these files that are reproduced within Concerned Citizen. They are published here in part as historical curiosity, and in part for their readymade graphic design/art-book qualities.Concerned Citizen also contains a brief critical essay on the history of the The Anarchist Cookbook – exploring its disputed association with anarchist political philosophy; the ethics surrounding the publication; and its transformation into what Johann ‘Hans’ Most calls a ‘literary Satan’.
ISBN 9781925788013. Tempo Haus. pb. 182 pages. 21.5 x 28 cm.
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