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The dangers of dissent : the FBI and civil liberties since 1965 /
While most studies of the FBI focus on the long tenure of Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), The Dangers of Dissent shifts the ground to the recent past. The book examines FBI practices in the domestic security field through the prism of "political policing." The monitoring of dissent i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While most studies of the FBI focus on the long tenure of Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), The Dangers of Dissent shifts the ground to the recent past. The book examines FBI practices in the domestic security field through the prism of "political policing." The monitoring of dissent is exposed, as are the Bureau's controversial "counterintelligence" operations designed to disrupt political activity. This book reveals that attacks on civil liberties focus on a wide range of domestic critics on both the Left and the Right |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 334 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739149393 0739149393 9780739149409 0739149407 1282936646 9781282936645 |