The Secret Service: the hidden history of an enigmatic agency

PART ONE

THE EVOLUTION OF THE MISSION: "Death to traitors"

"The work of protecting me has at last become legal"

Losing Lancer

The JFK assassination

Agents in action

Go to George Washington Hospital

fast!"

Fortress White House?

PART TWO

ON THE JOB: A few good men and a very few good women

The politics of protection

"The sixth sense"

PART THREE

THE HUMAN FACTOR: Booze, burnout, demands, and depression

Family matters

protecting first ladies and first kids

Getting to know you

presidential psychology

PART FOUR

THE SECRET SERVICE TODAY AND TOMORROW: Breaking the code of silence

from John F. Kennedy to Ken Starr

A whole new ballgame

the Secret Service in the age of terrorism

Homeland insecurity

Bush, the Secret Service, and the 2004 campaign: the protection of politics

Conclusion.