Read Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service By Carol Leonnig Full Books Online in HD Quality

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the ongoing scandals under Obama and Trump--by Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius

Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled.

The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the Secret Service was becoming notorious for break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing at the building while agents stood by, a massive prostitution scandal in Cartagena, and many other dangerous lapses.

To expose the these shortcomings, Leonnig interviewed countless current and former agents who risked their careers to speak out about an agency that's broken and in desperate need of a reform.

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

More Books

A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

Philip Rucker

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

George Stephanopoulos

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

Kate Conger

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci

Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation

Aaron Zebley

War

Bob Woodward

The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies

Michael V. Hayden