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CSI/CUNY News Release |
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For Immediate Release |
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Staten Island, NY – December 8, 2004 – Richard Gid Powers,
author of Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI,
will present a one-hour lecture on Wednesday, December 8 at 2:30
p.m. in the Center for the Arts Lecture Hall at the College of
Staten Island.
“Powers presents a shocking and accurate picture of why the FBI
developed an institutional culture that rendered it blind to the
threat from international terror,” said John Lehman, former
Secretary of the Navy and member of the 9/11 Commission, as cited on
the publisher’s Web site.
The lecture will be an informative and eye-opening overview of the
book, which Publisher's Weekly says "features an astonishing range
of political abuses, misdirected investigations, skewed priorities,
and sheer intelligence failures." They call the book "a timely and
nuanced history of the legendary agency that puts its current
struggles in appropriate context." The lecture will be followed by a
book signing by the author.
WHO:
Richard Gid Powers
WHAT:
Lecture and book signing
WHERE:
CSI Center for the Arts
Lecture Hall
2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Island
WHEN:
Wednesday, December 8 at 2:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI was
published in October 2004 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. They can be found
online at www.simonsays.com.
About the Author
Richard Gid Powers is a professor of history at CUNY Graduate Center
and the College of Staten Island. He is the author of the definitive
biography, Secrecy and Power. The Life of J. Edgar Hoover, and Not
Without Honor: The History of American Anti- communism, among other
books. He has written dozens of reviews and articles about the
Bureau and has participated regularly in film documentaries on the
FBI. He is the principal consultant for, and appears in, Tower
Productions’ four-part documentary on the FBI for the History
Channel. He was also the consultant for the PBS American Experience
documentary G-Men: Hoover’s Rise to Power, which was based on his
book G-Men. Powers has also written for The New York Times Book
Review. He lives in Staten Island, New York.
The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a senior college of The City
University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s leading urban
university. CSI offers 35 academic programs, 15 graduate degree
programs, and challenging doctoral programs to 12,000 students.
The 204-acre landscaped campus of CSI, the largest in NYC, is fully
accessible and contains an advanced, networked infrastructure to
support technology-based teaching, learning, and research. For more
information, visit www.csi.cuny.edu
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