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The recent publication of The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger brings much needed attention to a little known bit of civil disobedience by some anti-war activists back in 1971 that led to the discovery of systemic illegal surveillance and covert…
Read More »I just finished watching the first season of a great BBC TV series on Netflix…and its available streaming! The Fall, created by Allan Cubitt and directed by Jakob Vertruggen is a captivating crime drama (and honest, I usually don’t like crime dramas). The main character, Detective Superintendent Stella…
Read More »I just finished reading Frederik Logevall’s Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2012. A professor of history at Cornell, Logevall uses recently released diplomatic archives from several countries to paint a comprehensive portrait of…
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