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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: last honest man
    sub title: the CIA, the FBI, the mafia, and the Kennedys--and one senator's fight to save democracy
  name:
    name part: Risen, James
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Risen, Tom
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  abstract: Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate, he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community. The dark truths that Church exposed--from assassination plots by the CIA, to links between the Kennedy dynasty and the mafia, to the surveillance of civil rights activists by the NSA and FBI--would shake the nation to its core, and forever change the way that Americans thought about not only their government but also their ability to hold it accountable. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and reams of unpublished letters, notes, and memoirs, some of which remain sensitive today, James Risen tells the gripping, untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked power--and winning--in this book -- adapted from jacket
  table of contents: A note on sources. Prologue: Senator Cathedral. (Part one: If I make no mark elsewhere, 1924-1975): Happier times -- The finest diction in the army -- If you don't run you will never get there -- Persona non grata -- A betrayal -- War prolonged and unending -- We stand up now -- An enormous hue and cry -- As long as the KGB does it -- We have stood watch -- This will cost you the presidency. (Part two: We doubt that any other country would have the courage, 1975): A delicate balance -- The dirty facts -- Like what? Like assassinations. -- I had been asked by my government to solicit his cooperation -- Who will rid me of this man? -- The White House, can I help you? -- We met your man in the Congo -- What the president wanted to happen -- The abyss from which there is no return -- Under a double shadow -- The man who made a police state out of America -- No holds were barred. (Part three: A volcano cannot be capped, 1975-1984): Vindicated and pleased -- As dangerous as any stimulant -- One more service to render -- I see you have a presidential haircut -- And then it was over -- I've got to do it. Epilogue: They did great damage. Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
  target audience: adult
  note: by James Risen, with Thomas Risen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-422) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Church, Frank
      name part: 1924-1984
  subject:
    topic: Legislators
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
      name part: Senate
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Political corruption
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence service
    topic: Corrupt practices
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1945-1953
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1974-1977
  classification: E840.8.C49 R57 2023
  classification: 973.92092 B
  identifier: 9780316565134
  identifier: 031656513X
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: NjBwBT
    record creation date: 230501
    record change date: 20250318222437.1
    record identifier: in00004730072
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng