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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones was born in Wales and grew up in the ancient town of Harlech. He attended the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then the Universities of Michigan, Harvard and Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD. He was active in anti-apartheid, anti-Bomb, anti-Vietnam War and pro-civil liberties campaigns and aimed at a career in politics, but then settled down to family life and scholarly pursuits. He was a Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now emeritus. He played rugby in Wales, England and America, and remains a keen fan, his other interests being opera, vegetable gardening, and snooker.
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	The FBI: A History 3.23 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2007 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA 3.42 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler's Agents, the FBI, and the Case That Stirred the Nation 3.20 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America 3.41 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The CIA and American Democracy 3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1989 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence 3.28 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America 3.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Allan Pinkerton: America's Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PEACE NOW! 3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	North American Spies by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (Goodreads Author), Andrew Lownie (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A parable for our times? The counterproductive efforts of Hitler’s Germany secretly to subvert the United States

In 1938, Hitler described the United States as a “Jewish rubbish heap”. In the 1920s he had expressed a different view, thinking that the Aryan cream of Europe had crossed the Atlantic and built America into a great nation. He especially admired the technical achievement of Henry Ford. When he came to power in 1933, he decided to cultivate the US as a friend and ally.
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