About this title: This fast-paced history of the FBI presents the first balanced and complete portrait of the vast, powerful, and sometimes bitterly criticized American institution. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a well-known expert on U.S. intelligence agencies, tells the bureau's story in the context of American history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution.Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux ...
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2007-09-28
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 7-28-08
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Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-07-28
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2007
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 9/28/2007
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press, New Haven
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780300119145ISBN:0300119143
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New Haven, CT, U.S.A. : Yale University Press
Date Published: 2007
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"Jones is a professor of American history at Edinburgh University. The book suffers from his not being an American and total reliance on secondry sources. His singular criteria for judging the success of the FBI is how well it has enforced civil rights. This leads him to indict the Bureau when the problem was the Congress dominated by southerners. Anti-lynching laws were needed but not passed. The Bureau's job is to enforce the law something it can not do if there is no law.
Much of the book descibes the Bureau's organization structure:essential information but dull. At best, this is a poor academic study."
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