AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In this "stunning... spectacular account" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of many investigations into the abuse of power within the American government.

For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever larger, increasingly secretive and powerful, and increasingly abusive. Only once has someone managed to put an end to all this.

Senator Frank Church from Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become an incisive, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism in the world. Yet, he was also politically ambitious, privately desiring acceptance from the foreign policy establishment he despised and was willing to pursue the presidency.

Despite his flaws, Church would display historic strength at his greatest moment, when in the aftermath of the Watergate affair, he was tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community. The dark truths Church revealed—from assassination plans by the CIA, to connections between the Kennedy dynasty and the Mafia, to surveillance of civil rights by the NSA and the FBI—would shock the nation and forever change the way Americans thought not only about their government but about their ability to hold it accountable.

Drawing from hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and a wealth of published letters, notes, and memoirs, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Risen tells the harrowing, untold story of truth and integrity standing up to rampant power—and winning—in The Last Honest Man.

Pages: 480, Year of Publication: 0730, Dimensions: 14x14cm