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Nixon's war at home : the FBI, leftist guerillas, and the origins of counterterrorism / Daniel S. Chard.
Van Pelt Library HV8144.F43 C4267 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chard, Daniel S., author.
- Series:
- Justice, power, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
- Nixon, Richard M.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Terrorism--Prevention--History--20th century.
- Terrorism.
- Terrorism--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Left-wing extremists--Government policy--United States.
- Left-wing extremists.
- Domestic intelligence--United States--History--20th century.
- Domestic intelligence.
- History.
- Government policy.
- Terrorism--Government policy.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Nixon's War at Home shows how America's guerrilla war prompted the FBI to institute a host of new policing measures while reviving illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism. These efforts did little to stop the guerrillas - instead, they led to a bureaucratic struggle between the Nixon administration and the FBI that fueled the Watergate Scandal and brought down Nixon. Yet despite their internal conflicts, FBI and White House officials developed preemptive surveillance practices that would inform U.S. counterterrorism strategies into the twenty-first century, entrenching mass surveillance as a cornerstone of the national security state"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Nixon, Hoover, and America's Homegrown Insurgency
- 2. Off the Pigs!
- 3. Covert Operations and Clandestine Radicals
- 4. The Huston Plan
- 5. Improvising Counterterrorism
- 6. The War at Home and the FBI's Public Image
- 7. Police Killing
- 8. Deep Throat's Secret Wars
- 9. Arab Scare
- 10. Implosion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469664507
- 146966450X
- OCLC:
- 1237653147
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