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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists?quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans?that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation. It begins in 1971 in an America being split apart by the Vietnam War ... A small group of?activists?eight men and women?the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, inspired by Daniel Berrigan?s rebellious Catholic peace movement, set out to use a more active, but nonviolent, method of civil disobedience to provide hard evidence once and for all that the government was operating outside the laws of the land.??????????? The would-be burglars?nonpro?s?were ordinary people leading lives of purpose: a professor of religion and former freedom rider; a day-care director; a physicist; a cab driver; an antiwar activist, a lock picker; a graduate student haunted by members of her family lost to the Holocaust and the passivity of German civilians under Nazi rule. Betty Medsger's extraordinary book re-creat

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Author

Betty Medsger, Betty L. Medsger

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307962966

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Memoir

Rating

4 / 5 (699 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14