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"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the Secret Service was becoming notorious for break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing at the building while agents stood by, a massive prostitution scandal in Cartagena, and many other dangerous lapses. To expose these shortcomings, Leonnig interviewed countless current and former agents who risked their careers to speak out about an agency that's broken and in desperate need of a reform"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. TRAGEDY THAT BIRTHED A NEW SECRET SERVICE KENNEDY TO NIXON (1963-1974)
• ch. 1 Protecting Lancer
• ch. 2 Tempting The Devil
• ch. 3 Three Shots In Dallas
• ch. 4 No Time To Grieve
• ch. 5 One Last Day On The Trail
• ch. 6 President's Spies
• 2. MEETING THE TEST FORD TO CLINTON (1974-1999)
• ch. 7 Casual Walk To Church
• ch. 8 Battening Down The Hatches
• ch. 9 Night Of The Long Knives
• ch. 10 Happy Service, A Rising Threat
• ch. 11 Rock Star President
• ch. 12 Intern
• 3. TERROR AND POLITICS THE BUSH YEARS (2000-2007)
• ch. 13 Scrambling ON 9/11
• ch. 14 "You Don't Belong Here"
• ch. 15 "He Predicted All Of It"
• 4. WHEELS DOME OFF THE OBAMA YEARS (2008-2015)
• ch. 16 "He'll Be Shot Sore As Hell"

• ch. 17 Sullivan's Crew
• ch. 18 Night Bullets Hit The White House
• ch. 19 "I Woke Up To A Nightmare"
• ch. 20 Sullivan's Struggles
• ch. 21 Outed
• ch. 22 New Sheriff In Town
• ch. 23 Listing Ship
• ch. 24 "He's In The House"
• 5. SLIDING BACKWARD THE TRUMP YEARS (2016-2021)
• ch. 25 Clancy's Turn
• ch. 26 Chaos Candidate
• ch. 27 Taking A Hit For Trump.

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Author/Creator:

Leonnig, Carol , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Zero fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service [by Leonnig, C.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Zero fail [by Leonnig, C.] (First edition; New York : Random House, [2021] — ISBN 9780399589027; LCCN 2020041216)

Subjects:

United States Secret Service — History

United States Secret Service — Administration

Secret service — United States — History

Presidents — Protection — United States — History

Presidents — Assassination — United States — History

Presidents — Assassination attempts — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-519) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HV8144.S43 L46 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780399589027 (electronic bk.)
0399589023 (electronic bk.)
9780399589010 [Invalid]
0399589015 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1224044553

Other Control Numbers:

2576550 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302215910