Subversives : the FBI's war on student radicals, and Reagan's rise to power / Seth Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld, Seth, 1956-
2012
LD760 .R67 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Subversives : the FBI's war on student radicals, and Reagan's rise to power / Seth Rosenfeld.
Author
Rosenfeld, Seth, 1956-
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780374257002 (alk. paper)
0374257000 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Language
English
Description
viii, 734 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Call Number
LD760 .R67 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/9810979467
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [677]-687) and index.
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PART ONE : The FBI on campus
Spies in the hills
The Responsibilities 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.

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