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The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2012
On Sale: August 21, 2012
752 pages
ISBN: 0374257000
EAN: 9780374257002
Kindle: B0051OAS0M
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Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction History
Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with three
iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious
neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile
radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president
Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the
award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a
dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal
break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories, poison-pen
letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the
FBI’s covert operations—led by Reagan’s friend J. Edgar
Hoover—helped ignite an era of protest, undermine the
Democrats, and benefit Reagan personally and politically. At
the same time, he vividly evokes the life of Berkeley in the
early sixties—and shows how the university community, a site
of the forward-looking idealism of the period, became a
battleground in an epic struggle between the government and
free citizens. The FBI spent more than $1 million trying to block the
release of the secret files on which Subversives is based,
but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to release more than
250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what the
government was up to during a turning point in our nation’s
history. Part history, part biography, and part police
procedural, Subversives reads like a true-crime mystery as
it provides a fresh look at the legacy of the sixties, sheds
new light on one of America’s most popular presidents, and
tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and
unchecked power.
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