FBI ist für die meisten ein Akronym für anrüchige Polizeiarbeit. Aber die wenigsten wissen genau, was wahr ist und was Legende. Tim Weiner zeigt nun die wahre Geschichte der amerikanischen Bundespolizei.
Schlagwort-Archive: Tim Weiner
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “Enemies: A History of the FBI”
In this history of the FBI as a secret intelligence organization, Weiner didn’t need to take up the question of whether Hoover was gay. But he did: he condemns what he calls the “caricature” of Hoover as “a tyrant in a tutu, a cross-dressing crank.”
Kolumne: Leichenberg
Besprochen werden diesmal: “Der Deal” von David Ignatius, “Der Frauenhändler” von Giorgio Faletti, “Die Nacht des Zorns” von Fred Vargas, “Die Rachegöttin” von Christa Faust und “FBI. Die wahre Geschichte einer legendären Organisation” von Tim Weiner.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “FBI. Die wahre Geschichte einer legendären Organisation”
Tim Weiner zeichnet in seinem neuen Buch ein düsteres Bild des FBI. Die amerikanische Bundespolizei habe nicht nur Täter gefasst, sondern auch Opfer verursacht – unter vielen anderen Martin Luther King.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “Enemies: A History of the FBI”
Contrary to conventional wisdom and Clint Eastwood movies, J. Edgar Hoover did not accumulate his power by barging into the Oval Office with a thick dossier of dirt on each new president and his family.
Interview: Tim Weiner
The job of the intelligence services is to understand others and help leaders act more wisely, says Tim Weiner, the author of a new history of the FBI. There’s also, he tells us, a balance to be struck between liberty and security.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “Enemies: A History of the FBI”
In his new book, “Enemies,” New York Times reporter Tim Weiner dismisses half a century of innuendo about J. Edgar Hoover in slightly more than half a page. Spoiler alert: The dishi-est story ever to come out of the bureau probably isn’t true.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “FBI: Die wahre Geschichte einer legendären Organisation”
Seinen Mythos verdankt das FBI vor allem J. Edgar Hoover, der fast 50 Jahre lang an der Spitze der Organisation stand. In seinem neuen Buch über das FBI sieht der Tim Weiner den schillernden Hoover als den Erfinder des Sicherheitsstaates des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “Enemies: A History of the FBI”
The FBI’s crime-fighting exploits – including gangbuster stories from the 1930s – fall by the wayside in this narrative. “Enemies” does delve into some sexual affairs, but only to show how Hoover used the information to preserve his fiefdom and continue his vendettas.
Interview: Tim Weiner
Weiner won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 reporting on black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA, and has spent the succeeding 24 years examining the American intelligence community. He is in London promoting his latest book, “Enemies: A history of the FBI”.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “Enemies: A History of the F.B.I.”
First things first: Tim Weiner’s new book, “Enemies: A History of the F.B.I.” is an outstanding piece of work, even-handed, exhaustively researched, smoothly written and thematically timely.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: “FBI. Die wahre Geschichte einer legendären Organisation”
J. Edgar Hoovers brutales Imperium der Paranoia – FBI-Boss J. Edgar Hoover überlebte acht US-Präsidenten, die, wie es hieß, unter ihm arbeiteten. Jetzt seziert eine Biografie die berühmteste Polizeibehörde der Welt.
Rezension: Tim Weiner: »Enemies: A History of the FBI«
Tim Weiners »Enemies: A History of the FBI« is a scathing indictment of the FBI as a secret intelligence service that has bent and broken the law for decades in the pursuit of Communists, terrorists and spies.