| International Standard Book Number |
9780063330603
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063330601
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
955.05/4
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| Personal Name |
Unger, Craig, author.
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| Title Statement |
Den of spies : Reagan, Carter, and the secret history of the treason that stole the White House / Craig Unger.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Reagan, Carter, and the secret history of the treason that stole the White House.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
©2024.
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| Imprint |
Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, [2024]
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| Physical Description |
[xi], 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"ARGO meets SPOTLIGHT, as journalist Craig Unger, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of AMERICAN KOMPROMAT and HOUSE OF BUSH, HOUSE OF SAUD, reveals his thirty-year investigation into the secret collusion between Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign and Iran, raising urgent questions about what happens when foreign meddling in our elections goes unpunished and what gets remembered when the political price for treason is victory. It was a tinderbox of an accusation. In April 1991, the NEW YORK TIMES ran an op-ed alleging that Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign had conspired with the Iranian government to delay the release of 52 American hostages until after the 1980 election. The Iranian hostage crisis was President Jimmy Carter's largest political vulnerability, and his lack of success freeing them ultimately sealed his fate at the ballot box. In return for keeping Americans in captivity until Reagan assumed the oath of office, the Republicans had secretly funneled arms to Iran. Treasonous and illegal, the operation-planned and executed by Reagan's campaign manager Bill Casey-amounted to a shadow foreign policy run by private citizens that ensured Reagan's victory. Investigative journalist Craig Unger was one of the first reporters covering the October Surprise-initially for ESQUIRE and then NEWSWEEK-and while attempting to unravel the mystery, he was fired, sued, and ostracized by the Washington press corps, as a counter narrative took hold: The October Surprise was a hoax. Though Unger later recovered his name and became a bestselling author on Republican abuses of power, the October Surprise remained his white whale, the project he-as well as legendary investigative journalist, the late Robert Parry-worked on late at night and between assignments. In DEN OF SPIES, Unger reveals the definitive story of the October Surprise, going inside his three-decade reporting odyssey, along with Parry's never-before-seen archives, and sharing startling truths about what really happened in 1980. The result is a real-life political thriller filled with double agents, CIA operatives, slippery politicians, KGB documents, wealthy Republicans, and dogged journalists. A timely and provocative history that presages our Trump-era political scandals, DEN OF SPIES demonstrates the stakes of allowing the politics of the moment to obscure the writing of our history"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Presidents United States Election 1980.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Political corruption United States History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Foreign interference in elections Iran.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Foreign interference in elections United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Intelligence service Political aspects 20th century.
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Military assistance, American Iran.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 1977-1981.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Relations Iran.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran Relations United States.
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