Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power

Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Year Published:  2012
Pages:  752pp   Price:  $40   ISBN:  978-0374257002
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX14508

A study of the role of the FBI in the postwar Red Scare, focusing especially on Ronald Reagan's long and creepy relationship with the FBI. It is also a fascinating account of the origins and development the New Left, and a powerful examination of how the FBI corroded due process and democracy.

Subject Headings

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Free Speech
• New Left
• Police Misconduct
• Political Repression
• Subversion