While it may come as no surprise that the FBI tracked Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, and the irrepressible James Baldwin, the real revelations of this compulsively readable collection of actual FBI files are the more unexpected dossiers on Ray Bradbury, Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt, and Truman Capote, alleged perpetrator of a rumor that John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt. Ayn Rand and Tom Clancy are shown to be in the agency's good graces, while Ernest Hemingway—despite being the subject of countless investigations—finally earns Hoover's begrudging respect.