Introduction -- The early years : creation and proscribed growth -- World War I and the origins of political surveillance -- Abuse of power, retrenchment, and morality -- The New Deal and a war on crime -- The origins of FBI intelligence, the crisis of World War II -- The early Cold War years : anticipating and curbing subversion -- Promoting Mccarthyism--and morality (again) -- Secrecy and power : the undermining of accountability -- From anticommunism to law and order -- Scandal and limited reform -- A modern bureau and the politics of terrorism.
