Zero Fail: The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Service,New

New York Times Bestseller This Is One Of Those Books That Will Go Down As The Seminal Workthe Determinative Workin This Field. . . . Terrifying.Rachel Maddowthe 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 6By The Pulitzer Prize Winner And #1 New York Times Bestselling Coauthor Of A Very Stable Genius And I Alone Can Fix Itnamed One Of The Best Books Of The Year By The Washington Postcarol Leonnig Has Been Reporting On The Secret Service For The Washington Post For Most Of The Last Decade, Bringing To Light The Secrets, Scandals, And Shortcomings That Plague The Agency Todayfrom A Toxic Work Culture To Dangerously Outdated Equipment To The Deep Resentment Within The Ranks At Key Agency Leaders, Who Put Protecting The Agencys Oncehallowed Image Before Fixing Its Flaws. But The Secret Service Wasnt 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 Its Failure To Protect The President On That Fateful Day In Dallas, This Oncesleepy 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 Obamas Presidency, The Onceproud Secret Service Was Running On Fumes And Beset By Mistakes And Alarming Lapses In Judgment: Breakins 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 Trumps 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.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 Thats 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.