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Subversives : : the Fbi's war on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power

Rosenfeld, Seth, 1956- Book - 2012 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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PART ONE : The FBI on campus -- Spies in the hills -- The Responsibilites Program -- The undertaker -- The rise of Clark Kerr -- The essay question -- Protest at City Hall -- Communist target - youth -- The trial of Robert Meisenbach -- An eye-opener -- The FBI story.
PART TWO : Student radicals -- The police car -- The Free Speech movement -- A leak to the press -- Sit-in at Sproul Hall -- No evidence -- An angry young man -- Vietnam Day.
PART THREE : The rise of Reagan -- The governor's race -- The Peace Trip Dance -- Sources on campus -- Landslide -- Fired with enthusiasm -- Obey the rules -- A key activist -- At bayonet point -- People's Park ---- Epilogue : The aftermath -- Appendix : My fight for the FBI files.
"A narrative report on the FBI's covert involvement with future President Ronald Reagan, radical Mario Savio and liberal university president Clark Kerr to suppress the 1960s student movement at Berkeley reveals J. Edgar Hoover's campaign of planted news stories, illegal break-ins and other acts designed to undermine the Democratic party." - Publishers description.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: viii, 734 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374257002
0374257000

SUBJECTS
Reagan, Ronald.
University of California, Berkeley -- History.
United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Student movements -- Berkeley -- History.
College students -- History. -- Berkeley
Subversive activities -- Berkeley -- History.
California -- Politics and government -- 1951-