This weekend’s read is The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI by Betty Medsger (2014)

You’ve heard of Watergate, and Woodward and Bernstein from the Washington Post, but have you heard of the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI and the 8 burglars who broke into the FBI field office in Media, PA?

This book is about the 8 burglars who had never been caught for stealing all of the files in a small FBI office in the late 1970s. Proving that the FBI was investigating, wiretapping and following American citizens on American soil, and working to discourage dissent by any means necessary, the release of the files struck the first of many blows to Hoover’s FBI.

I will be providing a review as soon as I have this one finished. But if you are at all interested in the last great period of North American Civil Unrest, prior to the one we live in now, this is something to pick up!

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Originally intended to simply focus on book reviews, over time, KaliDesautelsReads has morphed into its own entity. I write about issues that are near to my heart, be they political, feminist, motherhood, mental health, or, as the title holds, books. A thirty-something Canadian woman in my mid-thirties, I have been "super married" to my high school sweetheart since 2006, and together we have two crazy, clever, kind, hilarious, wonderful kids. My first book - How Not To Blog: Finding Myself, One Post at a Time is available on Amazon (in eBook formats for you clever tech readers, and paperback for those of us who love that new book smell!) I have tried a podcast - it's still on Apple and Google Podcasts - but writing is where my heart is. My life changed dramatically when my husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer in 2018, and I am now a writer for a leading Canadian Cancer Non-Profit. I am lucky enough to have a family that loves me and pushes me to be my best, even if it is outside of my cushiony comfort zone. I have a village of friends that nourish me, mentally, and spiritually. Welcome to my thoughts. Sit down. Stay a while. Enjoy a cup of coffee!

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