Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig: Conversation Starters E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig: Conversation Starters

In Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Leonnig weaves together the firsthand accounts of more than 180 people–ranging from former and current agents, officers, and directors, government officials in previous administrations, and other witnesses—related to the evolution of the Secret Service through the years. The hundreds of hours spent interviewing these individuals, who upheld their anonymity for fear of repercussions, coupled with thorough research and extensive reviews of thousands of documents, including the presidential archives and Secret Service reports, allowed Leonnig to paint an unpopular picture of the agency failing to live up to its name and maintaining its place at the zenith of presidential security. Zero Fail missions were based not on skills or technology but on lackluster “dumb luck,” as she describes in the book.

A certified New York Times bestseller, Zero Fail garnered an almost-perfect score of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 4,168 global ratings on Amazon while sitting atop the website’s various book charts.

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Table of Contents

Introducing Zero Fail

Introducing the Carol Leonnig

Inspiration Behind Zero Fail

Discussion Questions

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Introducing Zero Fail

On the other hand, President Richard Nixon took advantage of the Service to cultivate his unresolved bitterness over his defeat against JFK in 1960. Residing in the White House was clearly not enough to cure his disdain; he was still haunted by JFK's family name in the persona of senator Ted Kennedy, JFK's cousin, a supporter of Democratic presidential nominee candidate George McGovern, and a prospective presidential opponent in the 1976 elections. The President hoped to tarnish the young senator's political reputation by leaking information that would change his public image, and he thought the best way to find such dirt would be through the Secret Service. Many questioned his decision to assign agents for Kennedy since he was not a presidential candidate, but Nixon used the 1972 shooting of Governor George Wallace to push his agenda further. "We might just get lucky and catch this son of a bitch and ruin him for '76," Nixon proclaimed to his senior agent. Besides his resentment towards the Kennedys, Nixon abused the system by appropriating the Secret Service budget to pay for expensive renovations presaging the Watergate scandal.