The New Yorker's Alex Ross filed a Freedom of Information Act request on Leonard Bernstein and received the late conductor's "eight-hundred-page F.B.I. file, memos from the files of Richard Nixon's Plumbers, and several lively excerpts from Nixon's White House tapes." In an ongoing series, he looks at how Bernstein's political beliefs and activities were monitored and interpreted by the FBI and the Nixon administration, particularly the "threat posed by 'Mass'-that multimedia, polystylistic spectacle in which Leonard Bernstein dramatized his struggle with God and fame." It makes for very interesting reading.