Screen LibraryThe FBI：a history
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 317 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300119145 (alk. paper) 0300119143 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D771 |
| CLC: | D771.236 |
| Call Number: | D771.236/J46-1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and index. 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. |