United Kingdom
France
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
USA
Italy
Spain
More From Contributor
Enemies
This title is the epic disturbing story of how the FBI is Americas 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 the first full history of the F.B.I. as a secret intellligence service. Drawn entirely from firsthand materials in the F.B.I.s own files "Enemies" brilliantly brings to life the entire
story from the cracking of anarchist cells to the prosecution of the war on terror. It is the story of Americas war against spies subversives and saboteurs - and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar Hoover who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years. He was not a monster but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by fear force and fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts it. Reviews: "Truly impressive...["Enemies"] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiners stature". (Keith Lowe "Sunday Telegraph"). "A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiners truth is wilder even than Ellroys fiction. Weiner sets the record
straight on the FBIs first 100 years using only the Bureaus documents and oral testimony most of which has never been seen". (David Blackburn "Spectator"). "An outstanding piece of work even-handed exhaustively researched smoothly written and thematically timely...This is certainly the most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.s intelligence-gathering operations from Emma Goldman to Osama bin Laden". (Bryan Burrough "New York Times"). "Extensively researched admirably understated yet terrifically entertaining". (Boston Globe). "Important and disturbing...Weiner lays bare a record of embarrassing even stunning failure in which the bureaus lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence...[he] has done prodigious research yet
tells this depressing story with all the verve and coherence of a good spy thriller". ("New York Times Book Review"). About the author: 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 Pentagons Black Budget". He is the author of the bestselling "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" which won the 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction."
story from the cracking of anarchist cells to the prosecution of the war on terror. It is the story of Americas war against spies subversives and saboteurs - and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar Hoover who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years. He was not a monster but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by fear force and fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts it. Reviews: "Truly impressive...["Enemies"] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiners stature". (Keith Lowe "Sunday Telegraph"). "A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiners truth is wilder even than Ellroys fiction. Weiner sets the record
straight on the FBIs first 100 years using only the Bureaus documents and oral testimony most of which has never been seen". (David Blackburn "Spectator"). "An outstanding piece of work even-handed exhaustively researched smoothly written and thematically timely...This is certainly the most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.s intelligence-gathering operations from Emma Goldman to Osama bin Laden". (Bryan Burrough "New York Times"). "Extensively researched admirably understated yet terrifically entertaining". (Boston Globe). "Important and disturbing...Weiner lays bare a record of embarrassing even stunning failure in which the bureaus lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence...[he] has done prodigious research yet
tells this depressing story with all the verve and coherence of a good spy thriller". ("New York Times Book Review"). About the author: 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 Pentagons Black Budget". He is the author of the bestselling "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" which won the 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction."
Product Description
Reviews/Comments
Add New
Vouchers
No voucher codes found.
Do you know a voucher code for this product or supplier? Add it to Insights for others to use.
Do you know a voucher code for this product or supplier? Add it to Insights for others to use.
Denmark