Gripping ...
Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and reams of unpublished letters, notes, and memoirs, some of which remain sensitive today, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen tells the gripping, untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked power--and winning--in The Last Honest Man ..
The dark truths that Church exposed--from assassination plots by the CIA, to links between the Kennedy dynasty and the mafia, to the surveillance of civil rights activists by the NSA and FBI--would shake the nation to its core, and forever change the way that Americans thought about not only their government but also their ability to hold it accountable.
Despite his flaws, Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment, when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community.
But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president.
He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero.
Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
For decades now, America\'s national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive.
It was 1975, and a senator named Frank Church stood almost alone in the face of extraordinary abuses of power.
The FBI, NSA, CIA, and even the IRS were on the warpath. -- Ken Burns Witnesses were mysteriously murdered. a spectacular piece of reporting that reads like a spy novel with the eloquence of great history.
Gripping ..
