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<p><i> Subversives</i> 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, poison-pen letters, and secret detention lists. He reveals how the FBI's covert operations—led by Reagan's friend J. Edgar Hoover—helped ignite an era of protest, undermine the Democrats, and benefit Reagan personally and politically. At the same time, he vividly evokes the life of Berkeley in the early sixties—and shows how the university community, a site of the forward-looking idealism of the period, became a battleground in an epic struggle between the government and free citizens. <br> The FBI spent more than $1 million trying to block the release of the secret files on which <i>Subversives</i> is based, but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to release more than 250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what

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Author

Seth Rosenfeld

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429969321

Category

history

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

4.32 / 5 (306 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14