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Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years
Athan Theoharis
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Description for Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years
Hardcover. Based on research of FBI files, this text uncovers the FBI's role in espionage cases of the Cold War years. It shows how secrecy immunized FBI operations from critical scrutiny and enabled FBI officials to mask their counterintelligence failures while promoting a politics of McCarthysim. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 540.
The long history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover is studded with serious questions about the Bureau’s professionalism and accountability. Revelations in the recent cases of Wen Ho Lee, Robert Hannsen, and Timothy McVeigh illustrate these misgivings. In Chasing Spies, Athan Theoharis, historian and perhaps the foremost authority on the FBI’s record, raises urgent new uncertainties about the Bureau’s behavior—and about the prospects for giving the FBI expanded powers of surveillance during the current national emergency. Mr. Theoharis here redefines the politics of the World War II and cold war eras, moving the debate beyond the ... Read more
The long history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover is studded with serious questions about the Bureau’s professionalism and accountability. Revelations in the recent cases of Wen Ho Lee, Robert Hannsen, and Timothy McVeigh illustrate these misgivings. In Chasing Spies, Athan Theoharis, historian and perhaps the foremost authority on the FBI’s record, raises urgent new uncertainties about the Bureau’s behavior—and about the prospects for giving the FBI expanded powers of surveillance during the current national emergency. Mr. Theoharis here redefines the politics of the World War II and cold war eras, moving the debate beyond the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634205
SKU
V9781566634205
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About Athan Theoharis
Athan Theoharis is professor of history at Marquette University. His many books include The Boss, From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover, Spying on Americans, Beyond the Hiss Case, Seeds of Repression, and The Yalta Myths. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Reviews for Chasing Spies: How the FBI Failed in Counter-Intelligence But Promoted the Politics of McCarthyism in the Cold War Years
No historian knows the records as well as Athan Theoharis...a much-needed corrective to the contemporary overinflation of the significance of Soviet espionage.
Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, Yeshiva University, author of Many are the Crimes An important book.
Tom Wicker Athan Theoharis calmly explores a major paradox of the Cold War: that J. Edgar Hoover, for all his ... Read more
Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, Yeshiva University, author of Many are the Crimes An important book.
Tom Wicker Athan Theoharis calmly explores a major paradox of the Cold War: that J. Edgar Hoover, for all his ... Read more