The FBI: A History
Autor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2007
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.
The book makes a number of surprising observations: that the role of J. Edgar Hoover has been exaggerated and the importance of attorneys general underestimated, that splitting counterintelligence between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a mistake, and that xenophobia impaired the bureau's preemptive anti-terrorist powers before and after 9/11. The author concludes with a fresh consideration of today's FBI and the increasingly controversial nature of its responsibilities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780300138863
ISBN-10: 0300138865
Pagini: 588
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.03 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Yale University Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0300138865
Pagini: 588
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.03 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Yale University Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Descriere
A well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies presents this fast-paced history of the FBI, from its anti-terrorist roots in the Reconstruction era to the 9/11 attacks.