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Enemies: A History of the FBI
Tim Weiner
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Description for Enemies: A History of the FBI
Paperback. Tells the story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. It is the story of America's war against spies, subversives and saboteurs - and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSW1; JPSH; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 384.
The epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service
'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once' President Woodrow Wilson, 1919
The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces.
Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A., Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner has now written ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141047959
SKU
V9780141047959
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About Tim Weiner
Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, where he has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and fifteen other nations. He was based for a decade in Washington, DC, where he covered the C.I.A. and the Military - the latter topic being the subject of his Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget. He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Enemies: A History of the FBI
Truly impressive ... [Enemies] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiner's stature
Keith Lowe
Sunday Telegraph
A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBI's first 100 years using only the Bureau's documents ... Read more
Keith Lowe
Sunday Telegraph
A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBI's first 100 years using only the Bureau's documents ... Read more