BOOK REVIEW
Enemies: A History of the FBI
By Tim Weiner 2012
About the Author
Tim Weiner was educated at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. He has won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting and writing on secret intelligence and national security. As a correspondent for The New York Times, he covered the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington and terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, and other nations. Enemies is his fourth book. His book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, published 2007, won the National Book Award and was acclaimed as one of the year’s best books by The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Time, and others. The Wall Street Journal called his book Betrayal “the best book ever written on a case of espionage.” Recent and archived work by Tim Weiner for The New York Times is at www.nytimes.com/by/tim-weiner
Best Books of the Year
The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate.
About the Book
This is the hidden history of the FBI and its hundred-year war against terrorists, spies, and anyone it deemed subversive — including even American presidents. Enemies: A History of the FBI traces the history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations—from the bureau’s creation in the early 20th-century through its ongoing role in the war on terrorism. Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
We think of the FBI as America’s police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau’s first and foremost mission. The FBI’s secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a tug-of-war between national security and civil liberties, a tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct political warfare — and how it has sometimes been turned against them. And it is the story of how the Bureau became the most powerful intelligence service the United States possesses.
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Endorsements
Enemies was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Slate.
Amy B. Zegart, Ph.D., Stanford University, author of Spying Blind says, “Enemies is a research masterpiece. Picking through seventy-thousand newly declassified documents and using on-the-record interviews, Weiner reveals startling new truths and debunks nagging old myths about the FBI. Enemies reads like a thriller, but don’t let the heart-pumping prose fool you. Weiner has written a scholarly tour de force that will be an instant classic for any serious student of American national security.”
Historian Robert Dallek says, “Tim Weiner’s Enemies is the most comprehensive history of the FBI as an intelligence agency we have ever had. Based on extensive research in previously unavailable materials, Weiner gives us a fresh way to think about J. Edgar Hoover, the many presidents he worked with, and the FBI as a national security agency. The book is also a cautionary tale that is essential reading for anyone concerned about American civil liberties.”
This book’s popularity is demonstrated in the fact that its Amazon rank is #31 in the catagory “Legal History” Customer Reviews rate it an average of 4.5 out of 5 stars from 358 ratings.
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