Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power

by Seth Rosenfeld

Book Overview

Subversives traces the FBI's secret involvement with three iconic figures at Berkeley during the 1960s: the ambitious neophyte politician Ronald Reagan, the fierce but fragile radical Mario Savio, and the liberal university president Clark Kerr. Through these converging narratives, the award-winning investigative reporter Seth Rosenfeld tells a dramatic and disturbing story of FBI surveillance, illegal break-ins, infiltration, planted news stories,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374257000
• ISBN13: 9780374257002
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 734 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"