The FBI a history
This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureaus story in the context of American history. Al...
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New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
2007
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| 300 | |a viii, 317 p. |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | |a Race and the character of the FBI -- Secret reconstruction, 1871-1905 -- Proud genesis, 1905-1909 -- Loss of mission, 1909-1924 -- The first age of reform, 1924-1939 -- Counterespionage and control, 1938-1945 -- The alienation of liberal America, 1924-1943 -- Gestapo fears and the intelligence schism, 1940-1975 -- Anachronism as myth and reality, 1945-1972 -- A crisis of American democracy, 1972-1975 -- Reform and its critics, 1975-1980 -- Mission regained, 1981-1993 -- Strife and slippage, 1993-2001 -- 9/11 and the quest for national unity | ||
| 520 | |a This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureaus story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution." "Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror against black American voters. The character and significance of the FBI derive from this original mission, the author contends, and he traces the evolution of the mission into the twenty-first century. | ||
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