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October Surprise : How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election by Devlin Barrett (2020, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPublic Affairs

ISBN-101541761979

ISBN-139781541761971

eBay Product ID (ePID)11038636055

Product Key Features

Book TitleOctober Surprise : How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicTerrorism, Intelligence & Espionage, American Government / General, International Relations / Diplomacy

GenrePolitical Science

AuthorDevlin Barrett

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Reviews"In his important and engrossing book, Barrett has laid out a damning portrait of the FBI in the run-up to the election...[Barrett] delivers an exquisitely sourced indictment of Comey and the bureau he once led." -- Washington Post

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal324.9730932

SynopsisIt is 11 days before the most consequential election of modern times. One candidate is caught in scandal; the other is on a clear path to making history. A foreign power is interfering, government agencies are at each other's throats, the country is bitterly divided. Then the FBI director steps in, and, in his second unprecedented act, tips the election decisively, and American politics is changed forever. October Surprise. For the first time, the full inside story of how the 2016 election was won and lost. Book jacket., The 2016 Election, which altered American political history, was not decided by the Russians or in Ukraine or by Steve Bannon. The event that broke Hillary's blue wall in the Midwest and swung Florida and North Carolina was an October Surprise, and it was wholly a product of the leadership of the FBI. This is the inside story by the reporter closest to its center. In September 2016, Hillary Clinton was the presumptive next president of the US. She had a blue wall of states leaning her way in the Midwest, and was ahead in North Carolina and Florida, with a better than even shot at taking normally Republican Arizona. The US was about to get its first woman president. Yet within two months everything was lost. An already tightening race saw one seismic correction: it came in October when the FBI launched an investigation into the Clinton staff's use of a private server for their emails. Clinton fell 3-4 percent in the polls instantly, and her campaign never had time to rebut the investigation or rebuild her momentum so close to election day. The FBI cost her the race. October Surprise is a pulsating narrative of an agency seized with righteous certainty that waded into the most important political moment in the life of the nation, and has no idea how to back out with dignity. So it doggedly stands its ground, compounding its error. In a momentous display of self-preservation, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and key Justice Department officials decide to protect their own reputations rather than save the democratic process. Once they make that determination, the race is lost for Clinton, who is helpless in front of their accusation even though she has not intended to commit, let alone actually committed, any crime. A dark true-life thriller with historic consequences set at the most crucial moment in the electoral calendar, October Surprise is a warning, a morality tale and a political and personal tragedy.

LC Classification NumberJK526