Zero fail : the rise and fall of the secret service
Leonnig, Carol2021
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Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today - from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency's once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times.
Main title:
Zero fail : the rise and fall of the secret service / Carol Leonnig.
Author:
Leonnig, Carol, author
Imprint:
London : Scribe UK, 2021.
Collation:
560 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781914484216 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
93214
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