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The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2013
On Sale: August 21, 2013
700 pages
ISBN: 1250033381
EAN: 9781250033383
Kindle: B0051OAS0M
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Subversives traces the FBI’s secret involvement with
three iconic figures who clashed 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 all
centered on the nation's leading public university.
Rosenfeld vividly evokes the campus counterculture, as
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.
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 reveal more than 300,000 pages,
providing an extraordinary view of what the government was
up to during a turning point in our nation.
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 1960s, sheds new
light on one of America’s most popular presidents, and tells
a cautionary tale about the dangers of
unchecked secrecy and power.
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