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The FBI : a history /

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 histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race and the character of the FBI
  • Secret reconstruction, 1871-1905
  • Proud genesis, 1905-1909
  • Loss of mission, 1909-1924
  • The first age of reform, 1924-1939
  • Counterespionage and control, 1938-1945
  • The alienation of liberal America, 1924-1943
  • Gestapo fears and the intelligence schism, 1940-1975
  • Anachronism as myth and reality, 1945-1972
  • A crisis of American democracy, 1972-1975
  • Reform and its critics, 1975-1980
  • Mission regained, 1981-1993
  • Strife and slippage, 1993-2001
  • 9/11 and the quest for national unity.