The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency - Couverture souple

Melanson Ph.D., Philip H.

 
9780786716173: The Secret Service: The Hidden History of an Engimatic Agency
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786716177 ISBN 13 : 9780786716173
Editeur : Basic Books, 2005

Synopsis

This new edition of the definitive history of the Secret Service lays bare the 2004 Bush campaign's political uses of the agency and the new challenges it faces as a branch of the Homeland Security Department, in a post-9/11 world. Acclaimed scholar of political violence and governmental secrecy Philip Melanson explores the long-hidden workings of the Secret Service since its inception in 1865 and through rigorous research and extensive interviews with former White House staffers and retired agents, uncovers startling facts about the Agency's role in such traumatic national events as the assassination of JFK and the shooting of President Reagan. Included, too, are revelations about presidential demands on the agency the problems of alcoholism, divorce, and burnout among agents and the Service's inexplicable failure to develop profiles of potential assassins. Up-to-date and explosive, this book assails the public image of the Secret Service as a highly professional apolitical organization, exposing the often-detrimental influence that politics exerts on the Agency.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philp H. Melanson, Ph.D., an expert on political violence and governmental secrecy, has done original research into the JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King assassinations, prompting appearances on CBS Evening News, BBC, History Channel, Discovery Channel, and C-SPAN. He has served as a consultant to the (JFK) Assassinations-Records Review Board, and is coordinator of the RFK Assassination Archives at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His last book was SECRECY WARS: NATIONAL SECURITY, PRIVACY, AND THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT TO KNOW. He lives in Marion, Massachusetts.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786716177
ISBN 13 
9780786716173
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
447
Coordonnées du fabricant
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