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Enemies - A History of the FBI (Paperback)
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Enemies - A History of the FBI (Paperback)
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The epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret
service 'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be
crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once'
President Woodrow Wilson, 1919 The United States is a country
founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the
last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its
enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful
of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A.,
Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner has now written the first full history
of the F.B.I. as a secret intellligence service. Drawn entirely
from firsthand materials in the F.B.I.'s own files, Enemies
brilliantly brings to life the entire story, from the cracking of
anarchist cells to the prosecution of the 'war on terror'. It is
the story of America's war against spies, subversives and saboteurs
- and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in
battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar
Hoover, who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years.
He was not a monster, but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by
fear, force, and fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts
it. Reviews: 'Truly impressive ... [Enemies] could have been put
together only by a journalist of Weiner's stature' Keith Lowe,
Sunday Telegraph 'A history that moves at the pace of a James
Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's
fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBI's first 100
years using only the Bureau's documents and oral testimony, most of
which has never been seen' David Blackburn, Spectator 'An
outstanding piece of work, even-handed, exhaustively researched,
smoothly written and thematically timely ... This is certainly the
most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.'s
intelligence-gathering operations, from Emma Goldman to Osama bin
Laden' Bryan Burrough, New York Times 'Extensively researched,
admirably understated, yet terrifically entertaining' Boston Globe
'Important and disturbing ... Weiner lays bare a record of
embarrassing, even stunning failure, in which the bureau's
lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence ... [he] has done
prodigious research, yet tells this depressing story with all the
verve and coherence of a good spy thriller' New York Times Book
Review About the author: Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist at the New York Times, where he has reported from
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and fifteen other nations. He was
based for a decade in Washington, DC, where he covered the C.I.A.
and the Military - the latter topic being the subject of his Blank
Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget. He is the author of the
bestselling Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, which won the
2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
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