This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service
lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign's political uses of the agency and
the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security
Department, in a post-9/11 world. Acclaimed scholar of political
violence and governmental secrecy Philip Melanson explores the
long-hidden workings of the Secret Service since its inception in
1865 and through rigorous research and extensive interviews with
former White House staffers and retired agents, uncovers startling
facts about the Agency's role in such traumatic national events as
the assassination of JFK and the shooting of President Reagan.
Included, too, are revelations about presidential demands on the
agency the problems of alcoholism, divorce, and burnout among
agents and the Service's inexplicable failure to develop profiles
of potential assassins. Up-to-date and explosive, this book assails
the public image of the Secret Service as a highly professional
apolitical organization, exposing the often-detrimental influence
that politics exerts on the Agency.
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