In Federal City's Secret, Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team investigate spirit activity in the heart of Washington, D.C. Marie learns more about her psychic abilities, bringing more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, as the SIPS team lands in the middle of conspiracy, politics, secret societies and murder. Through the help of a spirit, Marie discovers that the mafia doesn't take kindly to strangers taking what isn't theirs. Can the SIPS Team get to the bottom of things before more lives are lost? The third book in Robin Murphy's Marie Bartek series, Federal City's Secret will captivate you with murder, suspense and the world of the paranormal.
The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair's “Best Books of 2022” “Not since Robert Caro’s Years of Lyndon Johnson have I been so riveted by a work of history. Secret City is not gay history. It is American history.” —George Stephanopoulos Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. In the fevered atmosphere of political Washington, the secret “too loathsome to mention” held enormous, terrifying power. Utilizing thousands of pages of declassified documents, interviews with over one hundred people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Secret City is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Beginning with the tragic story of Sumner Welles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s brilliant diplomatic advisor and the man at the center of “the greatest national scandal since the existence of the United States,” James Kirchick illuminates how homosexuality shaped each successive presidential administration through the end of the twentieth century. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people sparked a decades-long witch hunt, impacting everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for Black civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement. Among other revelations, Kirchick tells of the World War II–era gay spymaster who pioneered seduction as a tool of American espionage, the devoted aide whom Lyndon Johnson treated as a son yet abandoned once his homosexuality was discovered, and how allegations of a “homosexual ring” controlling Ronald Reagan nearly derailed his 1980 election victory. Magisterial in scope and intimate in detail, Secret City will forever transform our understanding of American history.
In Federal City's Secret, Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team investigate spirit activity in the heart of Washington, D. C. Marie learns more about her psychic abilities, bringing more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, as the SIPS team lands in the middle of conspiracy, politics, secret societies and murder. Through the help of a spirit, Marie discovers that the mafia doesn't take kindly to strangers taking what isn't theirs. Can the SIPS Team get to the bottom of things before more lives are lost? The third book in Robin Murphy's Marie Bartek series, Federal City's Secret will captivate you with murder, suspense and the world of the paranormal. This is the large print edition of Federal City's Secret, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
In Federal City's Secret, Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team investigate spirit activity in the heart of Washington, D. C. Marie learns more about her psychic abilities, bringing more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, as the SIPS team lands in the middle of conspiracy, politics, secret societies and murder. Through the help of a spirit, Marie discovers that the mafia doesn't take kindly to strangers taking what isn't theirs. Can the SIPS Team get to the bottom of things before more lives are lost? The third book in Robin Murphy's Marie Bartek series, Federal City's Secret will captivate you with murder, suspense and the world of the paranormal. This is the large print edition of Federal City's Secret, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.
In Federal City's Secret, Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team investigate spirit activity in the heart of Washington, D. C. Marie learns more about her psychic abilities, bringing more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, as the SIPS team lands in the middle of conspiracy, politics, secret societies and murder. Through the help of a spirit, Marie discovers that the mafia doesn't take kindly to strangers taking what isn't theirs. Can the SIPS Team get to the bottom of things before more lives are lost? The third book in Robin Murphy's Marie Bartek series, Federal City's Secret will captivate you with murder, suspense and the world of the paranormal.
In Federal City's Secret, Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team investigate spirit activity in the heart of Washington, D. C. Marie learns more about her psychic abilities, bringing more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, as the SIPS team lands in the middle of conspiracy, politics, secret societies and murder. Through the help of a spirit, Marie discovers that the mafia doesn't take kindly to strangers taking what isn't theirs. Can the SIPS Team get to the bottom of things before more lives are lost? The third book in Robin Murphy's Marie Bartek series, Federal City's Secret will captivate you with murder, suspense and the world of the paranormal.
In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly after 9:00 A.M., the bomb obliterated one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 infants and toddlers. McVeigh claimed he'd worked only with Nichols, and at least officially, the government believed him. But McVeigh's was just one version of events. And much of it was wrong. In Oklahoma City, veteran investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles puncture the myth about what happened on that day—one that has persisted in the minds of the American public for nearly two decades. Working with unprecedented access to government documents, a voluminous correspondence with Terry Nichols, and more than 150 interviews with those immediately involved, Gumbel and Charles demonstrate how much was missed beyond the guilt of the two principal defendants: in particular, the dysfunction within the country's law enforcement agencies, which squandered opportunities to penetrate the radical right and prevent the bombing, and the unanswered question of who inspired the plot and who else might have been involved. To this day, the FBI heralds the Oklahoma City investigation as one of its great triumphs. In reality, though, its handling of the bombing foreshadowed many of the problems that made the country vulnerable to attack again on 9/11. Law enforcement agencies could not see past their own rivalries and underestimated the seriousness of the deadly rhetoric coming from the radical far right. In Oklahoma City, Gumbel and Charles give the fullest, most honest account to date of both the plot and the investigation, drawing a vivid portrait of the unfailingly compelling—driven, eccentric, fractious, funny, and wildly paranoid—characters involved.
