Edward Jay Epstein's investigation of how the Nixon administration attempted to use drug control policy to create a secret police.Edward Jay Epstein is the author of 15 books, and which have been excerpted in the New Yorker, Atlantic, and Sunday Times of London. He studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a Ph.D from Harvard. My master's thesis on the search for political truth became the best-selling Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His doctoraldissertation on television news was published as News From Nowhere. He is the recipient of numerous of foundation grants and awards, including the prestigious Financial Times/ Booz Allen prize for both best biography and best business book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. His website is at www.edwardjayepstein.com.“Epstein makes a persausive case that Nixon’s drug control program was misguided, bungled, and even oppresive.”–Wall Street Journal“A powerful expose.... As bizarre as anything to come out of the Watergate scandal, Agency Of Fear unveils the Nixon Administration’s attempt to set up a clandestine police force”– Publishers Weekly