Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, thousands of FBI files, interviews with former agents, and the presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers reveals a man of inalterable ideals and convictions who clung to a private vision of an orderly, traditional America, and who vowed to crush anyone who threatened it.
The American anticommunist movement has been viewed as a product of right-wing hysteria that deeply scarred American society and institutions. This book restores the struggle against communism to its place in American life.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan , chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it was adversely affected political decisions and events, ...
The FBI is romanticized, feared, criticized and admired. Because of its strong impact on American public life, it is the focus of interest and research by students and professionals studying history, politics, law, criminal justice and law enforcement. This is a complete reference work on this powerful organization. This new guide focuses on the ...
"Calling the Police! Calling the G-Men! Calling all Americans to War on the Underworld" was the sign-on of the first radio pro-gram to portray the agents of the FBI as action heroes. Thus began the remarkable collaboration between the government agency and the merchants of popular culture that was to continue for over forty years. In "G-Men ...
A handbook which provides a convenient and efficient guide to the prevalent ways of life, recreations and artistic creations of contemporary Japan. It is designed for the general reader, as well as the specialist in Japanese culture. The areas explored are those that have proven to be of durable interest to the Japanese, such as sports, science ...
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