The FBI a history /

Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri.

The FBI a history / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages)

Includes bibliographies 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.



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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation --History.


Electronic Books.

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