The FBI: a history

Race and the character of the FBI

Secret reconstruction, 1871-1905

Proud genesis, 1905-1909

Loss of mission, 1909-1924

The first age of reform, 1924-1939

Counterespionage and control, 1938-1945

The alienation of liberal America, 1924-1943

Gestapo fears and the intelligence schism, 1940-1975

Anachronism as myth and reality, 1945-1972

A crisis of American democracy, 1972-1975

Reform and its critics, 1975-1980

Mission regained, 1981-1993

Strife and slippage, 1993-2001

9/11 and the quest for national unity.