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DESCRIPTION:SETH ROSENFELD\nSUBVERSIVES:\nThe FBI’s War on Student Radicals and 
 Reagan’s Rise to Power\nin conversation with Oscar Villalon\n\nSeth 
 Rosenfeld 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 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. \n\nThe FBI 
 spent more than $1 million trying to block the release of the secret files 
 on which SUBVERSIVES is based, but Rosenfeld compelled the bureau to 
 release more than 250,000 pages, providing an extraordinary view of what 
 the government was up to during a turning point in our nation’s history. 
 \n\nPart history, part biography, and part police procedural, Subversives 
 reads like a true-crime mystery as it provides a fresh look at the legacy 
 of the sixties, sheds new light on one of America’s most popular 
 presidents, and tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of secrecy and 
 unchecked power.\n\nSeth Rosenfeld was for many years an investigative 
 reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, where his article about the free 
 speech movement won seven national awards. He lives in San 
 Francisco.\n\nOscar Villalon is managing editor of ZYZZYVA. His reviews and 
 essays have appeared in VQR, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR.org. He is 
 former book editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/02/18720832.php
SUMMARY:Seth Rosenfeld on Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Powe
LOCATION:The Booksmith\n1644 Haight Street\nSan Francisco CA 94117
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/02/18720832.php
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