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Zero Fail

The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

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Zero Fail

Auteur(s): Carol Leonnig
Narrateur(s): Maggi-Meg Reed, Carol Leonnig
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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming lapses of the Obama and Trump years—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Carol Leonnig

“This book is a wake-up call, and a valuable study of a critically important agency.”—The New York Times

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Carol Leonnig reported on the Secret Service for nearly a decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today—from a toxic workplace culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws.

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 by Barack Obama’s presidency, the once-proud Secret Service was running on fumes and beset by mismanagement and mistakes in judgement: 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.

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 is in desperate need of reform. Amériques Liberté et sécurité Politique États-Unis

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“This book is a wake-up call, and a valuable study of a critically important agency.”—The New York Times

“Zero Fail is an important book, one that will ruffle feathers in need of ruffling and that will be useful to legislators, policymakers and historians alike.”—The Washington Post

“Here is journalism as a true and honest public service. . . . [Zero Fail] is just terrific.”—The Wall Street Journal

“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.”—Rachel Maddow
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First off I think all the talk about the author being a horrible narrator is overblown. She is not that bad
Next, the author's anti trump views are not really surprising and do not tarnish the message. I believe in her overall message, that she is pointing out these flaws to help the service improve.

Where I did think the book was weaker, was in spending a lot of time discussing affairs between agents (which is likely an issue in a lot of workplaces and didn't necessarily impair their job performance). Also I think that the section on trump lacks a bit of perspective as it was written during or immediately after his tenure. I think it would have been better to have written that part a few years after he left and the pandemic was over to understand any influence he had in a broader sense.

a good account of organizational failings

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More historical than I expected, which was great. Fascinating anecdotes throughout. Secret service is more of a mess than I realized!

Less salacious than you might expect

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While acknowledging how difficult it is to read such extensive material, Carol is factual, unemotional, and at one point near the end, vocally exhausted. The information in this deep dive is interesting and in some ways predictable, and it confirms many of the things suspected by the public as we watched it unfold before us. Well done, Carol. I’ll be watching for your next tour de force.

Well researched, lots of information here.

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The book was great. The author seemed to remain objective until the last section of the book. It was fitting she narrated it as the language used was full of bias, which wasn’t seen in the previous sections.

Overall a great listen if you are interested in the subject.

Great insight into the service

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I am already a huge fan of Carole Leonnig, having watched her numerous times on interviewed on MSNBC and CNN. Equally I found her collaborative book “A Very Stable Genius” co authored with Phil Rucker an extraordinarily revealing description of the real (and dangerous) Donald Trump.
Zero Fail is a detailed, compelling and in many ways a frightening expose of one of the security services in the USA that suffers from ineptitude, leader arrogance and gross mismanagement.
This is an important piece of research and hopefully will be a wake up call to those responsible to make the changes needed.

Fabulous and frightening

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The content of this book is not only interesting, but hopefully also impactful. The writing is okay but the editing is poorly done; had it been better lots the frequent trite and unnecessary phrases would have been removed. I wouldn’t let this deter you if you are contemplating checking out the dangerous behaviour of the Secret Service AND Presidents.

Good Journalism; Mediocre Editing

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