David Rohde-IN DEEP: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about Americas Deep State
With IN DEEP: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America\u2019s \u201cDeep State\u201d [W. W. Norton & Company], two-time Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist David Rohde investigates whether an American \u201cdeep state\u201d exists. Today, three-quarters of Americans polled believe that a group of unelected government and military officials are secretly manipulating national policy. To conservatives, the \u201cdeep state\u201d is an ever-growing government bureaucracy, an \u201cadministrative state\u201d that relentlessly encroaches on the individual rights of Americans. Liberals fear the \u201cmilitary-industrial complex\u201d\u2014a cabal of generals and defense contractors who they believe routinely push the country into endless wars. Americans increasingly distrust the politicians, lobbyists, and journalists who they believe unilaterally set the country\u2019s political agenda. American democracy faces its biggest crisis of legitimacy in a half century.
\nAbout the Author:
\nDavid Rohde, two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, is an executive editor of The New Yorker website, an MSNBC contributor, and a former New York Times, Reuters, and Christian Science Monitor reporter. He lives in New York City with his family.
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