FBI A History

Name: FBI A History
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ISBN: 9780300142846

ISBN-10: 0300142846

ISBN-13: 9780300142846

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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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 bureau7;s story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI7;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…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is professor emeritus of American history, Edinburgh University. His previous books include "The CIA and American Democracy," "Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War," and "Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence," all published by Yale University Press.



Preface



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


Notes


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