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Nixon's war at home : the FBI, leftist guerrillas, and the origins of counterterrorism /

"Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Nixon's War at Home shows how America's guerrilla war prompted the FBI to institute a host of new policing measures while reviving illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chard, Daniel S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The making of American counterterrorism
  • Nixon, Hoover, and America's homegrown insurgency
  • Off the pigs!
  • Covert operations and clandestine radicals
  • The Huston plan
  • Improvising counterterrorism
  • The war at home and the FBI's public image
  • Police killing
  • Deep Throat's secret wars
  • Arab scare
  • Implosion
  • The politics of counterterrorism.