Unmaking Hunter Kennedy

by Anne Eliot

Publisher : Butterfly Books, LLC
Release Date : 2012
ISBN : 9781937815035
Pages : 437 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (815 users)

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Download or read book Unmaking Hunter Kennedy written by Anne Eliot and published by Butterfly Books, LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a car accident, pop star Hunter Kennedy hides out in a small town in Colorado, resting and attending high school in disguise. But when sweet Vere Roth, who's been assigned to make him over into a geek, asks for guy advice -- Hunter can't resign himself to the friend zone any longer.

Writing the Fiction Synopsis

by Pam McCutcheon

Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
Release Date : 2014-05-15
ISBN : 1611944473
Pages : pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (611 users)

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Download or read book Writing the Fiction Synopsis written by Pam McCutcheon and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never dread a synopsis again! Pam McCutcheon, multi-published author and acclaimed guru of the synopsis, guides you step-by-step through the process of creating the synopsis you need to understand your novel and market your manuscript. Updated and revised, this second edition is organized as an interactive workbook using extensive examples and worksheets to help you create and understand: What a synopsis is and why you need one What to put in your synopsis, what to leave out, and why How to include plot and character development in your synopsis How to add tone, mood, and considerations important to your genre Three methods to start your synopsis The key to a good synopsis How to write a back cover blurb How to use the plotting board to build your synopsis "Bravo! Pam McCutcheon has decoded the synopsis! Writing the Fiction Synopsis is packed with useful information helpful to both the professional and novice writer. I wish I'd had this informative book years ago. Writing the Fiction Synopsis is a must-have tool for all writers. Pam McCutcheon has given a writers a cure for the synopsis headache." -- Maggie Osborne, award-winning author of more than 40 books "I'd been to Pam McCutcheon's online workshop on synopsis and found it really helpful, so I bought this book, too. (Watch out everyone, I'm going to gush.) This is by far the best book I've ever seen on writing a synopsis!! And like you and many others, I've gone nuts trying to get my synopsis to say what it needs to say in an interesting and concise way without making it a yawner. I'm also one of those authors who writes a rough synopsis as a road map after I've written about 3 chapters of a book to keep me on track. This book makes it so easy. If you buy one book on writing a synopsis, buy this one." -- Lisa Mondello, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author "Writing the Fiction Synopsis is destined to be a classic!" -- Karen Fox, RITA-nominated romance author

How I Fly

by Anne Eliot

Publisher :
Release Date : 2015-01-02
ISBN : 9781937815073
Pages : 353 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (815 users)

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Download or read book How I Fly written by Anne Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How I Fly, the conclusion to the bestselling, young adult romance, How I Fall series by Anne Eliot. *What if it's time to move on?* Over six months after an accident that broke her legs as well as removed her boyfriend from her life"-because Cam Campbell left town and dumped her-"high school senior, Ellen Foster, wants to move past her broken heart. She's off to attend a summer photography workshop at a real university along with her best friends. Ellen's determined to find a new love-or at least a summer boyfriend. In the dorm, she meets Harrison Shaw. He's a handsome photography student, a charmer who likes her, and a perfect way to forget her past. *What if it all goes perfectly?* Ellen thinks she has everything she wants. Her summer program couldn't be better. She's half in love with Harrison Shaw, and she's going after her next scholarship. But when she kisses Harrison, she can only remember how Cam Campbell used kiss her better, sweeter, and how he used to make her feel like she could fly... *What if something's not right?* When Cam shows up at the university it's a shock, especially to Ellen's new boyfriend. Cam's distant, different and very afraid to hurt Ellen again. He asks Ellen if they could be friends despite the past and how they've both changed and Ellen agrees. But after all they've been through, can Cam and Ellen ever be just friends? *What if...?* Editorial Description: How I Fly, is the second book in the two-book, bestselling, high school romance series that begins with: How I Fly. Though they can be read as stand-alone stories, it is recommended that readers read this book second. The series is about friendship, boyfriends, taking risks and first love. There's a photographer heroine who has left-sided cerebral palsy (hemiparesis) that makes her weak on one side and she falls often; all while she's falling deeply in love with football jock, Cam Campbell. He's a guy who also dreams to be a photographer like Ellen Foster. But his football life and his parents are out of control. Above all, he's had a crush on Ellen Foster forever. But because Cam and Ellen are really young to be so in love, and because they both face huge life issues, there's always been a question hanging between them: Are they meant to be?

How I Fall

by Anne Eliot

Publisher :
Release Date : 2014-06-15
ISBN : 9781937815042
Pages : 372 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (815 users)

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Download or read book How I Fall written by Anne Eliot and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cam Campbell, a football player, has a crush on Ellen Foster, the photography girl. In their high school photography class, Cam and Ellen are assigned to work on a project with Laura, an Irish girl, and Patrick. This causes the dynamics of the group to be strained. Ellen has cerebal palsy and is always prone to falling. Soon she is hurt in a fall, breaking both of her legs, and the two boys who were involved, one of them Cam, are to blame.

Unmaking Détente

by Milorad Lazic

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-06-29
ISBN : 1793649227
Pages : 305 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (793 users)

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Download or read book Unmaking Détente written by Milorad Lazic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia's activism in the Global South and its relations with the superpowers. The author shows that Yugoslavia’s anxiety over a “new Yalta” required a disruptive role toward détente, which it saw as the superpowers’ attempt to divide the spheres of influence. Yugoslavia’s global activism in the 1970s reflected not only its desire to undermine alleged superpowers’ agreements but also its desire to promote the Yugoslav revolutionary model as a distinctive form of political, social, and economic organization. The author traces the complex interactions between Yugoslavia and the world but also investigates the limitations of Yugoslavia's global activism. Drawing on a novel and wide source base from the archives in the former Yugoslavia, the United States, and Great Britain, the book shows the web of opportunities, problems, and challenges that détente and the Cold War in the 1970s offered to and imposed on a small state in the Balkans.

Unmaking the Presidency

by Susan Hennessey

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-01-21
ISBN : 0374718415
Pages : 432 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (374 users)

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Download or read book Unmaking the Presidency written by Susan Hennessey and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book for everyone who has developed an unexpected nostalgia for political 'norms' during the Trump years . . . Other books on the Trump White House expertly detail the mayhem inside; this book builds on those works to detail its consequences." —Carlos Lozada (one of twelve books to read "to understand what's going on") "Perhaps the most penetrating book to have been written about Trump in office." —Lawrence Douglas, The Times Literary Supplement The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies. From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage? As editors of the “invaluable” (The New York Times) Lawfare website, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have attracted a large audience to their hard-hitting and highly informed commentary on the controversies surrounding the Trump administration. In this book, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and defend something other than himself? What aspects of Trump are radically different from past presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents? When has he simply built on his predecessors’ misdeeds, and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely his own? By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no other.

Un-Making Law

by Jay Feinman

Publisher : Beacon Press
Release Date : 2005-10-12
ISBN : 9780807044278
Pages : 244 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (44 users)

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Download or read book Un-Making Law written by Jay Feinman and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an undercover war going on in America that impacts everyone's life far more than the legal issues that typically grab the headlines. The conservative movement has been systematically turning back a century's worth of the evolving gains and protections found in the common law-the areas of law that affect the everyday activities of ordinary people. Throughout the twentieth century, contract, property, and personal injury law evolved to take more account of social conditions and the needs of consumers, workers, and less powerful members of American society. Contracts were interpreted in light of common sense, property ownership was subjected to reasonable-use provisions to protect the environment, and consumers were protected against dangerous products. But all that is changing. Conservatives have a clear agenda to turn back the clock on the common law to maximize the profits of big business. Some significant inroads have already been made to protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits, enforce form contracts that prevent employees from suing for discrimination, and hamper the government's protection of the environment against aggressive development, for example. More rollbacks are on the horizon. Although this aspect of the conservative agenda is not as visible as assaults on abortion rights and civil liberties, it may ultimately have even greater impact on our society. Jay M. Feinman's book is an accessible, eye-opening primer, full of vivid examples and case histories-from victims of medical malpractice who cannot recover damages to people who relinquish their right to sue by applying for a job. If you subscribe to any of these common myths of twenty-first-century America, you will find surprising facts and illuminating analysis in Un-Making Law: The "All-American Blame Game" has corrupted our moral fiber-everyone is looking for a scapegoat to sue whenever anything goes wrong. Malpractice lawsuits have gone sky-high in recent years, forcing insurance companies reluctantly to raise rates and forcing doctors out of practice. Consumers and employees agree to arbitration because it is a much simpler, less expensive, and fairer way to resolve contract disputes. The government invades the rights of private property owners when it protects endangered species and regulates land development.

The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950

by James R. Lothian

Publisher :
Release Date : 2009
ISBN :
Pages : 520 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (39 users)

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Download or read book The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950 written by James R. Lothian and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the engagement of interwar Catholic writers and artists both with modernity and with the political and economic upheavals in England and continental Europe.

Savage Journey

by Peter Richardson

Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-25
ISBN : 0520395638
Pages : 296 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (52 users)

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Download or read book Savage Journey written by Peter Richardson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San Francisco counterculture, and met talented editors who shared his dissatisfaction with mainstream journalism. Peter Richardson traces Thompson's transition during this time from New Journalist to cofounder of Gonzo journalism. He also endorses Thompson's later claim that he was one of the best writers using the English language as both a musical instrument and a political weapon. Although Thompson's political commentary was often hyperbolic, Richardson shows that much of it was also prophetic. Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Thompson's celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. This book refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson's influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. It concludes that Thompson was not only a gifted journalist, satirist, and media critic, but also the most distinctive American voice in the second half of the twentieth century.

Globalizing the U.S. Presidency

by Cyrus Schayegh

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-09
ISBN : 1350118524
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (35 users)

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Download or read book Globalizing the U.S. Presidency written by Cyrus Schayegh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using John F. Kennedy as a central figure and reference point, this volume explores how postcolonial citizens viewed the US president when peak decolonization met the Cold War. Exploring how their appropriations blended with their own domestic and regional realities, the chapters span sources, cases and languages from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe to explore the history of US and third world relations in a way that pushes beyond US-centric themes. Examining a range of actors, Globalizing the U.S. Presidency studies various political, sociocultural and economic domestic and regional contexts during the Cold War era, and explores themes such as appropriation, antagonism and contestation within decolonisation. Attempting to both de-americanize and globalize John F. Kennedy and the US Presidency, the chapters examine how the perceptions of the president were fed by everyday experiences of national and international postcolonial lives. The many examples of worldwide interest in the US president at this time illustrate that this time was a historical turning point for the role of the US on the global stage. The hopes and fears of peaking decolonization, the resulting pressure on Washington, Moscow and other powers, and a new mediascape together ushered in a more comprehensive globalization of international politics, and a new meaning to 'the United States in the world'.

Danse Macabre

by Stephen King

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-03-01
ISBN : 1439171165
Pages : 464 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (439 users)

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Download or read book Danse Macabre written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers and the creator of many unforgettable movies comes a vivid, intelligent, and nostalgic journey through three decades of horror as experienced through the eyes of the most popular writer in the genre. In 1981, years before he sat down to tackle On Writing, Stephen King decided to address the topic of what makes horror horrifying and what makes terror terrifying. Here, in ten brilliantly written chapters, King delivers one colorful observation after another about the great stories, books, and films that comprise the horror genre—from Frankenstein and Dracula to The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone, and Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. With the insight and good humor his fans appreciated in On ?Writing , Danse Macabre is an enjoyably entertaining tour through Stephen King’s beloved world of horror.

Before the Storm

by Rick Perlstein

Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-03-17
ISBN : 0786744154
Pages : 704 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (786 users)

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Download or read book Before the Storm written by Rick Perlstein and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian Rick Perlstein chronicles the rise of the conservative movement in the liberal 1960s. At the heart of the story is Barry Goldwater, the renegade Republican from Arizona who loathed federal government, despised liberals, and mocked "peaceful coexistence" with the USSR. Perlstein's narrative shines a light on a whole world of conservatives and their antagonists, including William F. Buckley, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bill Moyers. Vividly written, Before the Storm is an essential book about the 1960s.

Breaking Protocol

by Philip Nash

Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2020-01-21
ISBN : 081317841X
Pages : 295 pages
Rating Book: 4.1/5 (813 users)

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Download or read book Breaking Protocol written by Philip Nash and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of the Big Six, the first six female ambassadors for the United States. “It used to be,” soon-to-be secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright said in 1996, “that the only way a woman could truly make her foreign policy views felt was by marrying a diplomat and then pouring tea on an offending ambassador’s lap.” This world of US diplomacy excluded women for a variety of misguided reasons: they would let their emotions interfere with the task of diplomacy, they were not up to the deadly risks that could arise overseas, and they would be unable to cultivate the social contacts vital to success in the field. The men of the State Department objected but had to admit women, including the first female ambassadors: Ruth Bryan Owen, Florence “Daisy” Harriman, Perle Mesta, Eugenie Anderson, Clare Boothe Luce, and Frances Willis. These were among the most influential women in US foreign relations in their era. Using newly available archival sources, Philip Nash examines the history of the “Big Six” and how they carved out their rightful place in history. After a chapter capturing the male world of American diplomacy in the early twentieth century, the book devotes one chapter to each of the female ambassadors and delves into a number of topics, including their backgrounds and appointments, the issues they faced while on the job, how they were received by host countries, the complications of protocol, and the press coverage they received, which was paradoxically favorable yet deeply sexist. In an epilogue that also provides an overview of the role of women in modern US diplomacy, Nash reveals how these trailblazers helped pave the way for more gender parity in US foreign relations. Praise for Breaking Protocol “Here at last is the long-neglected story of America's pioneering women diplomats. Breaking Protocol reveals the contributions of six trail-blazers who practiced innovative statecraft in order to surmount all kinds of obstacles?including many posed by their own employer, the U.S. State Department. Philip Nash's illuminating study offers an invaluable foundation for our understanding of contemporary foreign policy decision-makers.” —Sylvia Bashevkin, author of Women as Foreign Policy Leaders: National Security and Gender Politics in Superpower America “Diplomacy is the one field of public political life that has been relatively open to women?we need only think of Hillary Clinton, Condoleeza Rice, and Madeleine Albright. In Breaking Protocol, Philip Nash reminds us of the history of their achievements with an enduring and enticing record of the much longer, surprising history of female diplomats and their individual efforts to shape American and international politics.” —Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney

The Republic of Cthulhu

by Eric Wilson

Publisher : punctum books
Release Date : 2016-11-07
ISBN : 0998237566
Pages : 188 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (998 users)

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Download or read book The Republic of Cthulhu written by Eric Wilson and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification. Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature-in this case, cosmic horror and the weird tale-to the parapolitical criminologist. Cosmic horror is a form of writing that relies heavily upon the epistemological assumption of a radical and irreconcilable disjunction between appearance and reality, perception and truth. In many ways, the well-constructed weird tale strongly resembles the hard-boiled detective story or the noir thriller in that the resolution of the narrative hinges upon a dramatically shattering confrontation with an unspeakable reality. Apart from its obvious utilization of conspiracy theory, the primary attraction of the Lovecraftian text lies with its remarkably sophisticated utilization of two central tropes of classical aesthetic theory-the sublime and the grotesque. Not only does Lovecraft's oeuvre represent a remarkable use of both of these motifs, but the raw literary power of the Lovecraftian weird tale serves as an outstanding exemplar for the parapolitical scholar to emulate in formulating an alternative mode of discourse, or poetics.

Gonzo Republic

by William Stephenson

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-11-17
ISBN : 1441163425
Pages : 200 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (441 users)

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Download or read book Gonzo Republic written by William Stephenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonzo Republic looks at Hunter S. Thompson's complex relationship with America. Thompson was a patriot but also a stubborn individualist. Stephenson examines the whole range of Thompson's work, from his early reporting from the South American client states of the USA in the 1960s to his twenty-first-century internet columns on sport, politics and 9/11. Stephenson argues that Thompson inhabited, but was to some extent reacting against, the tradition of American individualism begun by the Founding Fathers and continued by Emerson and Thoreau. Thompson sought out the edge-the threshold of chaos and insanity-in order to define himself. His characters enact the same quest, travelling through the surreal landscape of his literary America: the Gonzo Republic.

Law and the Political Economy of Hunger

by Anna Chadwick

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-31
ISBN : 019255722X
Pages : 220 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (192 users)

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Download or read book Law and the Political Economy of Hunger written by Anna Chadwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an inquiry into the role of law in the contemporary political economy of hunger. In the work of many international institutions, governments, and NGOs, law is represented as a solution to the persistence of hunger. This presentation is evident in the efforts to realize a human right to adequate food, as well as in the positioning of law, in the form of regulation, as a tool to protect society from 'unruly' markets. In this monograph, Anna Chadwick draws on theoretical work from a range of disciplines to challenge accounts that portray law's role in the context of hunger as exclusively remedial. The book takes as its starting point claims that financial traders 'caused' the 2007-8 global food crisis by speculating in financial instruments linked to the prices of staple grains. The introduction of new regulations to curb the 'excesses' of the financial sector in order to protect the food insecure reinforces the dominant perception that law can solve the problem. Chadwick investigates a number of different legal regimes spanning public international law, international economic law, transnational governance, private law, and human rights law to gather evidence for a counterclaim: law is part of the problem. The character of the contemporary global food system-a food system that is being progressively 'financialized'-owes everything to law. If world hunger is to be eradicated, Chadwick argues, then greater attention needs to be paid to how different legal regimes operate to consistently privilege the interests of the wealthy few over the needs of poor and the hungry.

Cloak and Dollar

by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
ISBN : 9780300101591
Pages : 388 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book Cloak and Dollar written by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a leading expert on the history of American espionage, here offers a lively and sweeping history of American secret intelligence from the founding of the nation through the present day. Jeffreys-Jones chronicles the extraordinary expansion of American secret intelligence from the 1790s, when George Washington set aside a discretionary fund for covert operations, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, when United States intelligence expenditure exceeds Russia's total defense budget. How did the American intelligence system evolve into such an enormous and costly bureaucracy? Jeffreys-Jones argues that hyperbolic claims and the impulse toward self-promotion have beset American intelligence organizations almost from the outset. Allan Pinkerton, whose nineteenth-century detective agency was the forerunner of modern intelligence bureaus, invented assassination plots and fomented anti-radical fears in order to demonstrate his own usefulness. Subsequent spymasters likewise invented or exaggerated a succession of menaces ranging from white slavery to Soviet espionage to digital encryption in order to build their intelligence agencies and, later, to defend their ever-expanding budgets. While American intelligence agencies have achieved some notable successes, Jeffreys-Jones argues, the intelligence community as a whole has suffered from a dangerous distortion of mission. By exaggerating threats such as Communist infiltration and Chinese espionage at the expense of other, more intractable problems--such as the narcotics trade and the danger of terrorist attack--intelligence agencies have misdirected resources and undermined their own objectivity. Since the end of the Cold War, the aims of American secret intelligence have been unclear. Recent events have raised serious questions about effectiveness of foreign intelligence, and yet the CIA and other intelligence agencies are poised for even greater expansion under the current administration. Offering a lucid assessment of the origins and evolution of American secret intelligence, Jeffreys-Jones asks us to think also about the future direction of our intelligence agencies.