The FBI & American democracy : a brief critical history /
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| Language: | English |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The early years : creation and proscribed growth
- World War I and the origins of political surveillance
- Abuse of power, retrenchment, and morality
- The New Deal and a war on crime
- The origins of FBI intelligence, the crisis of World War II
- The early Cold War years : anticipating and curbing subversion
- Promoting Mccarthyism
- and morality (again)
- Secrecy and power : the undermining of accountability
- From anticommunism to law and order
- Scandal and limited reform
- A modern bureau and the politics of terrorism.