Don't Shoot! We're Republicans! [[electronic resource] ] : Memoirs of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162691003321
• Autore: Jack Owens
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Midpoint Trade Books, 2009
• ISBN: 1-933909-66-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.25092
• Soggetti: Criminal investigation -- United States; Owens, Jack, -- 1944 Nov. 19-; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History -- 20th century; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Criminal investigation - United States; Social Welfare & Social Work; Social Sciences; Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Table of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Prologue""; ""PART ONE""; ""Chapter 1: Origins""; ""Chapter 2: Beginners""; ""Chapter 3: Basic Training""; ""Chapter 4: Hoganâ€?s Alley""; ""Chapter 5: Graduation""; ""PART TWO""; ""Chapter 6: Denver""; ""Chapter 7: Learning the Ropes""; ""Chapter 8: Softball""; ""Chapter 9: A Real Pro""; ""Chapter 10: Transferred""; ""PART THREE""; ""Chapter 11: Birmingham""; ""Chapter 12: Motivation""; ""Chapter 13: J. Edgar Hoover""; ""Chapter 14: Big Shoes to Fill""; ""Part 1: L. Patrick Gray""; ""Part 2: Clarence Kelley""; ""Chapter 15: The Young and the Restless""; ""Part 1: Doing Foolish Things""""Part 2: Volkswagen Arrest""; ""Chapter 16: Crime Resistance""; ""Chapter 17: The Atlanta Child Murders""; ""Chapter 18: William H. Webster""; ""Chapter 19: A Perfect Moment in an Imperfect World""; ""Chapter 20: Donâ€?t Shoot! Weâ€?re ; Republicans!""; ""Chapter 21: And Then Came Molly""; ""Chapter 22: Foreign Counterintelligence""; ""PART FOUR""; ""Chapter 23: Headlights""; ""Chapter 24: Area Code 215""; ""Chapter 25: Prison Hymn""; ""Chapter 26: William S. Sessions""; ""Chapter 27: Lincoln and Grant""; ""Chapter 28: Assassination of a Federal Judge""; ""Chapter 29: Louis J. Freeh""""Chapter 30: Colin Powell""; ""Chapter 31: Talladega Uprising""; ""Chapter 32: Dogcatchers""; ""Chapter 33: Beer for Breakfast""; ""Chapter 34: Losing the Recruiting Wars""; ""PART FIVE""; ""Chapter 35: Hitting the Wall""; ""Chapter 36: Retirement""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: The days of J. Edgar Hoover, has been carefully crafted as being polite, clean shaven young men and pleasantly smiling women whose hallmarks are polite words and good manners. Author Jack Owens goes behind that facade and shares the human side of the FBI. With a breezy sweep of the 30 years of his life as a Special Agent, Owens, with his remarkable wit, introduces the reader to a new type of FBI Agent- one who could appreciate the irony and humor of life and laughed and ""cussed,"" yes ""cussed"", as he met those ironies and idiosyncrasies in the field in Alabama. Owens' shares his unique pers