Subversives The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power

Name: Subversives The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
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ISBN: 9781250033383

ISBN-10: 1250033381

ISBN-13: 9781250033383

Edition: N/A

Authors: Seth Rosenfeld

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How Reagan and Hoover colluded to suppress the inspired student movement at Berkeley in the Sixties - told in full for the first timeSubversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories, poison-pen letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the FBI's covert operations - led by Reagan's…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 7/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.15" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Map: Berkeley in the 1960s


Prologue: A Meeting at the Governor's Mansion



The FBI on Campus



Spies in the Hills



The Responsibilities Program



The Undertaker



The Rise of Clark Kerr



The Essay Question



Protest at City Hall



Communist Target-Youth



The Trial of Robert Meisenbach



An Eye-opener



The FBI Story



Student Radicals



The Police Car



The Free Speech Movement



A Leak to the Press



Sit-in at Sproul Hall



No Evidence



An Angry Young Man



Vietnam Day



The Rise of Reagan



The Governor's Race



The Peace Trip Dance



Sources on Campus



Landslide



Fired with Enthusiasm



Obey the Rules



A Key Activist



At Bayonet Point



People's Park


Epilogue: The Aftermath


Appendix to the 2013 Edition: My Fight for the FBI Fifes


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Documents, Interviews, and Other Sources


Acknowledgments


Index


A photographic insert follows page