The listeners: a history of wiretapping in the United States

Introduction: The ballad of D. C. Williams

Part One. Dirty business: Stolen signals and whispering wires

Detective Burns goes to Washington

To intercept and divulge

The wiretapper's nest

Part Two. The bug in the martini olive: Eavesdroppers

Tapping God's telephone

Part Three. The listening age: Title III

Big brother, where art thou?

Limited assistance necessary

Off the wire

Epilogue: King's call, Hoover's tap.