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SUMMARY:Under Cover: 250 Years of Spying in America featuring David Rohde
DESCRIPTION:Gold Coast Forum & Raynham Hall Museum present Undercover: 250 Years of Spying in America featuring Pulitzer Prize winning author, David Rohde. Rohde will be in conversation with award-winning writer & editor, Ellen Wulfhorst to discuss his book Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy. The conversation will center on covering the CIA and other intelligence agencies today, as well as the crucial role of Congressional oversight committees and journalists in providing accountability and information about intelligence agencies and operations.\nBooks will be provided by Theodore’s Books.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.\nCopies of Where Tyranny Begins will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Theodore’s Books.\nABOUT THE BOOK: Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public servants. He sowed public doubt in both agencies so successfully that when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, he paid little political cost and, despite an unprecedented array of criminal indictments, easily won the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.\nIn Where Tyranny Begins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde investigates the strategies Trump systematically used to turn the country’s two most powerful law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons. Rohde also reveals how, during the Biden years, Justice Department non-partisan 1970s norms that Attorney General Merrick Garland reinforced inadvertently helped Trump, and could fail to deliver a trial and legal accountability by Election Day 2024.\nWhere Tyranny Begins exposes how ill-suited both the DOJ and FBI are to serve as checks on abuses of presidential power. The rise of hyper-partisanship and the Trump and Biden presidencies have uncovered core flaws in American constitutional democracy that Trump would exploit in a second term. A round of historic reforms equivalent to the post-Watergate reforms that stabilized American democracy in the 1970s are immediately needed. A five-word warning coined by the English philosopher John Locke in 1689 captures the stakes in 2024: “Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins.”\nDAVID ROHDE is a senior national security reporter for MS NOW and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of five books, most recently, Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy. He previously worked as the national security editor for NBC News, an executive editor of The New Yorker website, and as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The New York Times, Reuters, and The Christian Science Monitor. He covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia and lives in New York with his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, and two daughters. His wife, Kristen, grew up in Oyster Bay.\nPLEASE NOTE: All books signed at this event must be purchased from Theodore’s Books. If you purchase your copy in advance, please save your receipt.\nGold Coast forum is a not-for-profit organization focused on educating and informing all about the importance of books and literature by hosting vitally important authors and literary figures, providing a nonpartisan forum to discuss art, culture, history, business, and politics. Become a supporter of Gold Coast Forum here!\n\n
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