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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Table of Contents:
- 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