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A Secret Service Agent's Definitive Inside Account of Protecting the President
St. Martin's Press
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
386 pages ISBN: 1250044715 EAN: 9781250044716 Kindle: B00HTJJT7U Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A rare inside look at the Secret Service from an agent who
provided protection worldwide for President George H. W.
Bush, President William Clinton, and President George W.
Bush
Dan Emmett was just eight years old when
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events
surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young
Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret
Service agent—one of a special group of people willing to
trade their lives for that of the President, if necessary.
Within Arm's Length is a revealing and
compelling inside look at the Secret Service and the elite
Presidential Protective Division (PPD). With stories from
some of the author's more high-profile assignments in his
twenty-one years of service, where he provided arm's length
protection worldwide for Presidents George Herbert Walker
Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, and George W. Bush, both as
a member of the PPD and the Counter Assault Team, Dan Emmett
describes the professional, physical and emotional
challenges faced by Secret Service agents. Included are
never before discussed topics such as the complicated
relationship between presidents, first ladies and their
agents, the inner workings of Secret Service protective
operations as well as the seldom-mentioned challenges of the
complex Secret Service cultural issues faced by an agent’s
family. Within Arm's Length also shares firsthand
details about conducting presidential advances, dealing with
the media, driving the President in a bullet-proof
limousine, running alongside him through the streets of
Washington, and flying with him on Air Force
One.
Within Arm’s Length is the essential book
on the United States Secret Service. This revealing and
compelling inside look at the Presidential Protective
Division, along with spellbinding stories from the author’s
career, gives the reader an unprecedented look in to the
life and career of an agent in America’s most elite law
enforcement agency.
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