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Enemies

a History of the FBI
redban
Sep 25, 2014redban rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Wow, Jeffrey Toobin is quoted in the accolades for this book! I was just going to comment that this book reminds me of that CNN analyst Toobin: surface-level, play-it-safe, never-look-deeper mainstream fluff-piece. To be fair this might be better than Toobin, who can write pages of drivel about a Justice's social quirks while omitting anything insightful about the consequences of major rulings(!). Weiner meanders through a bunch of dates and events, leaving some readers to conclude that Hoover had some competence and integrity?! Well I suppose Obama deserves his Nobel Peace prize, defends the working class from banksters, reforms Corporate control of the electoral process, and protects journalism and whistleblowers. You would never know if you read Toobin, and this is similar to Weiner. It's a shame I can't rate this lower because there are actual neoconservative books out there, while this merely a neoliberal establishment fluff-piece... try The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI.