Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, author of The FBI: A History, will speak tomorrow, October 9th, at Stanford University about “The FBI in Historical Perspective.” This event will be open to the public, and will last from 4pm-5:15pm. No reservations are required.  The event is hosted by the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. For directions or more information on the event, click here.

Here’s what people are saying about Jeffreys-Jones and The FBI: A History:

• Christopher Waldrep of San Francisco State University says, “I would describe this book as a most important work on the FBI. It will change the way people think and talk about the FBI.”
• Loch Johnson, author of Seven Sins of American Foreign Policy says that Jeffreys-Jones’ new book “takes its place proudly on the small shelf of outstanding studies of America’s top agency for domestic law enforcement, counterintelligence, and counterterrorism. With this insightful, lucidly written, and exhaustively researched examination of the Bureau, Professor Jeffreys-Jones has managed to match his highly regarded earlier books on the Central Intelligence Agency.”
• M. J. Heale, author of McCarthy’s Americans: Red Scare Politics in State and Nation, 1935-1965, says, “This penetrating and remarkable history of the FBI, authoritatively locating the institution in its changing historical context, illuminates both its virtues and its weaknesses through the revealing prism of race.”
• Hugh Brogan of the BBC History Magazine says that Jeffreys-Jones “gives us a careful, clear, intelligent chronicle of the FBI during its first century.  He neither exaggerates nor glosses over faults or blunders.”

For more information on the book, or to read an excerpt, click here.