Subversives : the FBI's war on student radicals, and Reagan's rise to power / Seth Rosenfeld.

By: Rosenfeld, Seth, 1956-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 734 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250033383Subject(s): Student movements -- California -- Berkeley -- History | College students -- Political activity -- California -- Berkeley -- History | University of California, Berkeley -- Students -- History | Reagan, Ronald | Subversive activities -- California -- Berkeley -- History | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation | California -- Politics and government -- 1951- | Reagan, Ronald (Ronald Wilson), 1911-2004 | University of California, Berkeley | Reagan, Ronald | United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation | University of California, Berkeley | College students -- Political activity | Politics and government | Student movements | Students | Subversive activities | California | California -- Berkeley | FBI | Studenten | Radicalisme | Studentenbeweging | Verenigde Staten | Berkeley (Calif.) | Since 1951Genre/Form: History.DDC classification: 378.1/9810979467 LOC classification: LD760 | .R67 2012
Contents:
pt. I : 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 -- pt. II : 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--Pt. III : 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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 677-687) and index.

pt. I : 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 -- pt. II : 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--Pt. III : 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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