FBI. True story
19.99 €
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FBI. True story
19.99 €
Provocative, highly entertaining, and meticulously researched, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner chronicles the century-long history of the FBI and is the definitive encyclopedia of the secret US intelligence service. Drawing on files declassified in recent years, Weiner presents the FBI's founding father, J. Edgar Hoover, in his true light.
He tells how the spy network was created and perfected. How Hoover carried out almost unthinkable tasks: spying on the leaders of the Soviet Union and China during the darkest period of the Cold War, overseeing coups against democratically elected leaders of foreign countries, and skillfully destabilizing the position of US presidents. How he waged political warfare and managed state affairs for the purposes of national security, often at the expense of morality.
In examining the efforts of FBI leaders in the war on terrorists, spies, anarchists and assassins, Tim Weiner raises an important moral question about whether society is willing to give up guarantees of freedom and allow secret service agents to illegally penetrate into the private lives of citizens for the sake of promises of security.
He tells how the spy network was created and perfected. How Hoover carried out almost unthinkable tasks: spying on the leaders of the Soviet Union and China during the darkest period of the Cold War, overseeing coups against democratically elected leaders of foreign countries, and skillfully destabilizing the position of US presidents. How he waged political warfare and managed state affairs for the purposes of national security, often at the expense of morality.
In examining the efforts of FBI leaders in the war on terrorists, spies, anarchists and assassins, Tim Weiner raises an important moral question about whether society is willing to give up guarantees of freedom and allow secret service agents to illegally penetrate into the private lives of citizens for the sake of promises of security.
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