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The FBI : a history / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History.
- United States.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 317 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- A well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies presents this fast-paced history of the FBI, offering the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300119145
- 0300119143
- OCLC:
- 123119784
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