A lot of those people were altering public perceptions of society. 

Some were changing the way society thought about "reality".

So this makes an excellent reading list.

chaoticalHeavy

BooksAndArticles

I came across an interesting book at the library. It contains scans of correspondence and various files about authors who were placed under FBI surveillance. The scans are too cumbersome and long to record here, but I will add the author list below. 

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4217/Writers-Under-SurveillanceThe-FBI-Files

- Hannah Arendt
- James Baldwin
- Ray Bradbury
- Truman Capote
- Tom Clancy
- W.E.B Du Bois
- Allen Ginsberg
- Ernest Hemingway
- Aldous Huxley
- Ken Kesey
- Norman Mailer
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- Terry Southern
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Gore Vidal

Are there other interesting cases you guys may know of? 