Kenneth O'Reilly

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Kenneth O'Reilly is a professor and author of several books, including Nixon’s Piano: Presidents and Racial Politics from Washington to Clinton; Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File on Black America; Black Americans: The FBI File; and Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC, and the Red Menace. Racial Matters was a New York Times notable book of the year. He is emeritus professor of history at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and now teaches at Milwaukee Area Technical College. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Books by Kenneth O'Reilly

Racial Matters

The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972

By Kenneth O'Reilly

Author of Black Americans and Nixon's Piano Kenneth O'Reilly takes a blunt and remarkable look at the FBI and "its relentless drive to destroy the civil rights movement and its most visible leader, Martin Luther King, Jr." (The New York Times).

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