The Burglary by Betty Medsger
The never-before-told full story of the 1971 history-changing break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists--quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans--that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.The book shows how the break-in, and subsequent release of the contents of the FBI's files to newspapers across the country, upended the public's perception of the up-till-then inviolate head of the Bureau, paving the way for the FBI's overhaul for the first time since its inception forty-seven years before, in 1924, and setting the stage for the sensational release three months later by Daniel Ellsberg of the top-secret seven-thousand-page Pentagon study of U.S. decision making regarding the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon Papers.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781410469595 |
| ISBN 10 | 141046959X |
| Title | The Burglary |
| Author | Betty Medsger |
| Series | Thorndike Press Large Print Crime Scene |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Thorndike Press |
| Year published | 2014-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 927 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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