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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jason ross arnold”
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  • Uncertain Threats

    The FBI, the New Left, and Cold War Intelligence

    by Jason Ross Arnold ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What if the FBI’s surveillance of the New Left wasn’t only about repression and cynical self-interest?This book revisits one of the most controversial episodes of the Cold War: the FBI’s counterintelligence investigations into the activist leaders of SDS and other radical groups. While scholars have rightly emphasized political overreach, constitutional violations, and the Bureau’s institutional ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Secrecy in the Sunshine Era

    The Promise and Failures of U.S. Open Government Laws

    by Jason Ross Arnold ...
    A series of laws passed in the 1970s promised the nation unprecedented transparency in government, a veritable “sunshine era.” Though citizens enjoyed a new arsenal of secrecy-busting tools, officials developed a handy set of workarounds, from over classification to concealment, shredding, and burning. It is this dark side of the sunshine era that Jason Ross Arnold explores in the first ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks

    From Snowden to Samizdat

    by Jason Ross Arnold ...
    Series series Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series
    Human rights organizations. Hackers. Soviet dissidents. Animal welfare activists. Corruption-reporting apps. The world of whistleblowing is much more diverse than most people realize. It includes the prototypical whistleblowers—government and corporate employees who spill their organizations’ secrets to publicize abuses, despite the personal costs. But if you look closely at what the concept ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Legacy of Ashes (National Book Award Winner)

    The History of the CIA

    by Tim Weiner ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • With shocking revelations that made headlines all across the country, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.*"*For anyone interested in the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

    by Beverly Gage ...
    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Devil's Chessboard

    Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

    by David Talbot ...
    An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America’s greatest untold story of espionage history: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

    by Stephen Kinzer ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's worldDuring the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world.John Foster Dulles was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Bring the War Home

    The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

    by Kathleen Belew ...
    A Guardian Best Book of the Year“A gripping study of white power…Explosive.”—New York Times“Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.”—Terry Gross, Fresh AirThe white power movement in America wants a revolution.Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and disgruntled civilians who shar... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Quiet Americans

    Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War

    by Scott Anderson ...
    From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect the world todayAt the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Kissinger

    1923-1968: The Idealist

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers.Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award**No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Crisis Years

    Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

    by Michael Beschloss ...
    The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling ... Read more

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  • Kennedy's Wars : Berlin Cuba Laos and Vietnam

    Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam

    by Lawrence Freedman ...
    In his thousand-day presidency John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading the western world into a nuclear catastrophe. In Kennedy's Wars noted historian Lawrence Freedman ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD