The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret
Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming
mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the
insurrection at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 - by the Pulitzer
Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very
Stable Genius Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret
Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade,
bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that
plague the agency today - from a toxic work culture to dangerously
outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key
agency leaders, who put protecting the agency's once-hallowed image
before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn't always so
troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest
in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by
its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas,
this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite,
highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most
famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against
Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would
not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the once-proud
Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and
alarming lapses in judgement: break-ins at the White House, an
armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while
confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among
agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump's
arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a
president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret
Service to rack up political and personal gains. To explore these
problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and
former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put
their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that's
in desperate need of reform. 'I will be forever grateful to them
for risking their careers,' she writes, 'not because they wanted to
share tantalising gossip about presidents and their families, but
because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By
telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love.'
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