Nixon's War at Home

The FBI, Leftist Guerrillas, and the Origins of Counterterrorism

Daniel S. Chard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2026
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-9610-2 (ISBN)

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During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a long history of infiltrating activist groups, but this type of clandestine action posed a unique challenge. Drawing on thousands of pages of declassified FBI documents, Daniel S. Chard shows how America’s war with domestic guerrillas prompted a host of new policing measures as the FBI revived illegal spy techniques previously used against communists in the name of fighting terrorism. These efforts did little to stop the guerrillas—instead, they led to a bureaucratic struggle between the Nixon administration and the FBI that fueled the Watergate Scandal and brought down Nixon. Yet despite their internal conflicts, FBI and White House officials developed preemptive surveillance practices that would inform U.S. counterterrorism strategies into the twenty-first century, entrenching mass surveillance as a cornerstone of the national security state.

Connecting the dots between political violence and “law and order” politics, Chard reveals how American counterterrorism emerged in the 1970s from violent conflicts over racism, imperialism, and policing that remain unresolved today.

Daniel S. Chard is assistant professor of history at Western Washington University.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Justice, Power, and Politics
Zusatzinfo	14 illustrations - 14 halftones - 14 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	25 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-9610-X / 146969610X
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-9610-2 / 9781469696102
Zustand	Neuware