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 history. Along the way he challenges conventional understandings of that story and assesses the FBI's strengths and weaknesses as an institution.
Common wisdom traces the origin of the bureau to 1908, but Jeffreys-Jones locates its true beginnings in the 1870s, when Congress acted in response to the Ku Klux Klan campaign of terror against black American voters. The character and significance of the FBI derive from this original mission, the author contends, and he traces the evolution of the mission into the twenty-first century.
The book makes a number of surprising observations: that the role of J. Edgar Hoover has been exaggerated and the importance of attorneys general underestimated, that splitting counterintelligence between the FBI and the CIA in 1947 was a mistake, and that xenophobia impaired the bureau's preemptive anti-terrorist powers before and after 9/11. The author concludes with a fresh consideration of today's FBI and the increasingly controversial nature of its responsibilities.
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Nazwalbym te ksiazke najwazniejsza praca na temat FBI. Zmieni ona sposób, w jaki ludzie mysla i rozmawiaja o FBI.
Christopher Waldrep, San Francisco State University
Przelomowa historia FBI od jego antyterrorystycznych korzeni w okresie Rekonstrukcji po ataki 11 wrzesnia.
Ta z werwa opowiedziana historia FBI stanowi pierwszy wywazony i kompletny portret olbrzymiej, poteznej i niekiedy zazarcie krytykowanej amerykanskiej instytucji. Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, znany specjalista od amerykanskich agencji wywiadowczych, przedstawia jej dzieje w kontekscie historii Stanów Zjednoczonych. Przy okazji kwestionuje obiegowe interpretacje, ocenia tez mocne i slabe punkty FBI jako instytucji.
Ksiazka zawiera kilka zaskakujacych, ale dobrze uargumentowanych spostrzezen, np.: ze rola J. Edgara Hoovera byla i jest wyolbrzymiana, a znaczenie prokuratorów generalnych pomniejszane, ze podzial dzialalnosci kontrwywiadowczej miedzy FBI i CIA w 1947 roku byl bledem i ze prewencyjne mozliwosci antyterrorystyczne Biura przed i po 11 wrzesnia oslabiala ksenofobia. Autor konczy rozwazaniami nad dzisiejszym FBI i coraz bardziej kontrowersyjnym charakterem jego uprawnien.
RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES jest profesorem historii Stanów Zjednoczonych na Uniwersytecie Edynburskim. Napisal miedzy innymi ksiazki: The CIA and American Democracy, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War oraz Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, wszystkie opublikowane w Yale University Press.
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