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Enemies: A History Of The FBI (2012)

by Tim Weiner(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1400067480 (ISBN13: 9781400067480)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Random House

review 1: I was disappointed with this book as I felt it could do so much more. The book never really went into any detail of the FBI's intelligence operations. I know the book covers 100 years of the FBI but I would love to know more detail, instead of covering 50 or more headline cases why not cover 10-15 cases in great detail. The boom read more like a high school textbook, a mile wide and a inch deep.
review 2: Well written history of the FBI, following his equally well written history of the CIA. Fascinating to see the differences in culture between the two. The FBI has progressed from its days as a secretly funded, organization that worked outside the law. It's had some stumbles along the way and had to overcome being run by one man (JEH) for over 25 years. P... morerobably the two biggest cultural challenges were trying to infiltrate left wing organizations in the 60s and the stateless terrorism of today. And the biggest organizational challenge was/is dealing with noisy data to try to find an elusive signal (kudos to Nate Silver). Fascinating story. less

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