Willard M. Oliver

The Birth of the FBI

Teddy Roosevelt, the Secret Service, and the Fight Over America's Premier Law Enforcement Agency

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Produktbeschreibung

The Birth of the FBI traces the roots of the struggle between President Roosevelt and Congressman Tawney in the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781442265035
• ISBN-10: 1442265035
• Artikelnr.: 54377734

Autorenporträt

Willard M. Oliver, PhD, is a professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State. His areas of expertise include policing (ex. Police stress, small-town and rural policing, community policing, Homeland Security & policing, etc.), public policy of crime & criminal justice, and the history of criminal justice. He is the author of several other books pertaining to the history of criminal justice (as well as other areas of criminal justice and policing), including August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing (2017), A History of Crime and Criminal Justice in America 3rd ed. (2017), Killing Congress (Lexington, 2014), Introduction to Homeland Security (2014), Crime, History, and Hollywood (2013), and Killing the President (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Chapter 1 Federal Law Enforcement
Chapter 2 Pinkerton's Detectives
Chapter 3 Counterfeiters
Chapter 4 Assassinations
Chapter 5 The Secret Service
Chapter 6 The Making of President Theodore Roosevelt
Chapter 7 Conservation
Chapter 8 Land Thieves
Chapter 9 Chairman James A. Tawney
Chapter 10 The Bureau of Investigation
Chapter 11 Born in Controversy
Chapter 12 The Battle over the Bureau
Chapter 13 Sore Losers and Petty Politics
Chapter 14 The Aftermath
Epilogue