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The FBI & American democracy : a brief critical history
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- Creator
- Athan G. Theoharis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- x, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780700613458, 0700613455
- OCLC
- ocm54767570
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 anti-communism to law and order -- Scandal and limited reform -- A modern bureau and the politics of terrorism