Zero Fail - by Carol Leonnig (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the Secret Service was becoming notorious for break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing at the building while agents stood by, a massive prostitution scandal in Cartagena, and many other dangerous lapses. To expose the these shortcomings, Leonnig interviewed countless current and former agents who risked their careers to speak out about an agency that's broken and in desperate need of a reform"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - "This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work--the determinative work--in this field. . . . Terrifying."--Rachel Maddow</b> <p/>The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6--by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling co-author of <i>A Very Stable Genius </i>and <i>I Alone Can Fix It</i></b> <p/><b>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <i>THE WASHINGTON POST</i></b> <p/>Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for <i>The Washington Post</i> for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency's once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. <p/>The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by its failure to protect the president on that fateful day in Dallas, this once-sleepy agency was radically transformed into an elite, highly trained unit that would redeem itself several times, most famously in 1981 by thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and excellence would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mistakes and alarming lapses in judgment: break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing into the windows of the residence while confused agents stood by, and a massive prostitution scandal among agents in Cartagena, to name just a few. With Donald Trump's arrival, a series of promised reforms were cast aside, as a president disdainful of public service instead abused the Secret Service to rack up political and personal gains. <p/>To explore these problems in the ranks, Leonnig interviewed dozens of current and former agents, government officials, and whistleblowers who put their jobs on the line to speak out about a hobbled agency that's in desperate need of reform. "I will be forever grateful to them for risking their careers," she writes, "not because they wanted to share tantalizing gossip about presidents and their families, but because they know that the Service is broken and needs fixing. By telling their story, they hope to revive the Service they love."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"This book is a wake-up call, and a valuable study of a critically important agency."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>"<i>Zero Fail</i> is an important book, one that will ruffle feathers in need of ruffling and that will be useful to legislators, policymakers and historians alike."<b>--<i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/>"Here is journalism as a true and honest public service. . . . [<i>Zero Fail</i>] is just terrific."<b>--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> <p/>"Terrifying . . . There is certainly heroism here, and there are certainly plots that were foiled, and there are certainly instances of an agency in the moment being well run and foiling an attack and chasing something down and being on top of stuff. But there is an astonishing litany of stuff they have done wrong and scrapes we have narrowly avoided in this country by the skin of our teeth and through sheer luck. . . . It just flips your stomach up and down. This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work--the determinative work--in this field."<b>--Rachel Maddow</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Carol Leonnig</b> is a national investigative reporter at <i>The Washington Post</i>, where she has worked since 2000. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and co-author of the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>A Very Stable Genius</i>, Leonnig is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children.
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