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Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

January 01, 1970

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 28 July 1942) is professor of American history emeritus and an honorary fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh (School of History, Classics and Archaeology), Scotland. He is an authority on American intelligence history, having written two American intelligence history surveys and studies of the CIA and FBI. He has also written books on women and American foreign policy, America and the Vietnam War, and American labor history.[1]

Biography edit

Jeffreys-Jones was born in Carmarthen and grew up speaking Welsh in Harlech. Having moved to Harlech at a young age, he attended Ysgol Ardudwy, the local comprehensive school. He attended the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University), taking a B.A. in 1963. During 1964-65 he pursued graduate study at the University of Michigan and, during 1965–66, at Harvard University. In 1967 Jeffreys-Jones took his PhD in American history at Cambridge University in England.[2] He stated in 2020:

I originally approached American history after following a left wing trajectory that billed the United States as arch-conservative, arch-capitalist, and hostile to democratic socialism and world peace.[1]

He taught as a tutor of history at Harvard's Kirkland House, at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, and for the Transport and General Workers Union before becoming a lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh in 1967. After rising through the academic ranks as a lecturer and reader, in 1997 he became the university's second professor of American history, or its first exclusive professor of American history, given that in 1965 George "Sam" Shepperson had become "Professor of Commonwealth and American History." During his career, Jeffreys-Jones held visiting appointments, including: a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard (1971–72); a Stipendiary at the JFK Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Berlin, Germany; and a Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship and visiting professor at the University of Toronto.[3] Jeffreys-Jones has directed postgraduate students, master's and doctoral. Jeffreys-Jones was one of the founders of the Scottish Association for the Study of America.

Research and publications edit

Jeffreys-Jones began his scholarly pursuits examining the issue of violence in American industry during the Progressive Era, including the use of private detective agencies in labor disputes. Building on his work involving private detectives who collected intelligence for big business, Jeffreys-Jones then shifted his focus during the late 1970s to examine American secret intelligence, a time when the field began to blossom with the release of historical records and revelations of American intelligence agencies' activities. Jeffreys-Jones published an historical survey examining the development of American intelligence from the establishment of the Secret Service in the 19th century to the CIA in the 20th. This was followed by one of the first academic histories of the CIA at a time when most studies were undocumented, a book examining American intelligence and exaggeration, and a history of the FBI in which Jeffreys-Jones traced its origins to the 19th century and the federal government's pursuit of the Ku Klux Klan.

More recent books by Jeffreys-Jones traced the history of British-American intelligence cooperation and the recent rise of European Union intelligence, and analyzed the achievements of the American left since 1900. The latter book was the winner of the Neustadt Prize for the best British book on American politics published in 2013. His next two books were about the history of surveillance in the US and the UK, and about the 1938 Nazi spy ring in America. His latest work, A Question of Standing, brings the history of the CIA up to 2022, making a case for the importance of analysts. According to Mark White in BBC History Magazine (1 September 2022), it has ‘a perspective that is both balanced and compelling’.

Published works edit

Books edit

Books (edited) edit

Book contributions edit

  • "What Burleson and Orwell Overlooked: Private Security Provision in the United States and the United Kingdom." In: Private Security and Modern States: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by David Churchill, Dolores Janiewski and Pieter Leloup (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 214–31.
  • “J. Edgar Hoover.” In: The Federal Bureau of Investigation: History, Powers, and Controversies of the FBI, edited by Douglas M. Charles (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2022), pp. 221–28.

Articles (since 2015) edit

  • "The Death of a Myth: How Socialism and the Left Succeeded in America." Reviews in American History, vol. 43 (June 2015), pp. 281–87.
  • "Inter-Allied Commando Intelligence and Security Training in Gwynedd: The Coates Memoir," Intelligence and National Security, vol. 30, no. 4 (August 2015), pp. 545–59.
  • "State Surveillance is More Ethical than Private-Sector Intrusions," Wired (January/February 2016), p. 97.
  • "Antecedents and Memory as Factors in the Creation of the CIA," Diplomatic History, vol. 40, no. 1 (January 2016), pp. 140–54.
  • "A Brief History of the FBI’s Meddling in US Politics." Vox (November 5, 2016)
  • "Verraden." Geschiedenis Magazine (January/February 2017), pp. 45–49.
  • "Hector Davis: A Liberal at War." History, vol. 102, no. 350 (April 2017), pp. 242–58.
  • "Forcing Out Unwanted FBI Directors: A Brief, Messy History." Vox (May 23, 2017)
  • "The Sensitivity of SIGINT: Sir Alfred Ewing's Lecture on Room 40 in 1927." Journal of Intelligence History, vol. 17, no. 1 (2018). pp. 18–29.
  • "American Espionage: Lessons from the Past." Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 26, no. 1 (Fall/Winter 2019), pp. 93–106.
  • "Learning the Scholar's Craft: A Journey with Enid Jones, John Hope Franklin, Sir Denis Brogan, Sidney Fine, and Oscar Handlin." H-DIPLO, Essay 221 (April 29, 2020)
  • "Nazispionnen in Washington, 1937." Geschiedenis Magazine, vol. 55, no. 5 (July/August 2020), pp. 20–24.
  • "Leon Turrou and the Nazi Spy Ring in America." The Historian, vol. 82, no. 2 (2020), pp. 138–55.
  • "Leon Turrou: The Greatest Detective of Them All?" Strand Magazine (September 2020)
  • "A Forgotten Scandal: How the Nazi Spy Case Affected American Neutrality and German Diplomatic Opinion." Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review (September 2020). pp. 45–48.
  • With R. Gerald Hughes, “Timely Memoirs and the ‘British Invasion’: Two Trends in the Historiography of the CIA,” Journal of Intelligence History (March 2022): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2022.2051920
  • “The Inside Story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to ‘black’ propaganda in Ukraine” Insights, The Conversation, 25 August 2022: https://theconversation.com/the-inside-story-of-the-cia-v-russia-from-cold-war-conspiracy-to-black-propaganda-in-ukraine-188550.
  • “CIA at War – Inside the Agency’s Operations from Cold War Hotspots to 21st Century Battlefields”, Military History Now, 31 August 2022: https://militaryhistorynow.com/2022/08/31/cia-at-war-inside-the-agencys-operations-from-cold-war-hotspots-to-21st-century-battlefields/
  • “Allan Pinkerton: Informed Scot or Scottish Informer?” Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 42/2 (2022): 197–216.

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. "Learning the Scholar’s Craft: A Journey with Enid Jones, John Hope Franklin, Sir Denis Brogan, Sidney Fine, and Oscar Handlin." H-Diplo, Essay 221 (2020)
  2. ^ "Staff profiles: Professor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones." University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  3. ^ Contemporary Authors Online. Thomson Gale (2006)

Further reading edit

  • Freedman, Lawrence D. Review of A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA, in Foreign Affairs, 101 (November/December 2022), pp. 194–5.
  • Daskal, Jennifer. "Public and Private Eyes" Foreign Affairs. (Nov/Dec 2017), 96#6, pp 139–143; review of We Know All About You.
  • Morello, John, "We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America. By Rhodri Jeffreys‐Jones, " History (Jan 2020) 105#364, pp 173–175.
  • O'Reilly, Kenneth. review of The FBI: A History, in American Historical Review (June, 2008), p. 865.
  • "Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Gale, 2018). online

External links edit

January 01, 1970
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Rhodri Jeffreys Jones born 28 July 1942 is professor of American history emeritus and an honorary fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh School of History Classics and Archaeology Scotland He is an authority on American intelligence history having written two American intelligence history surveys and studies of the CIA and FBI He has also written books on women and American foreign policy America and the Vietnam War and American labor history 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Research and publications 3 Published works 3 1 Books 3 2 Books edited 3 3 Book contributions 3 4 Articles since 2015 4 Notes 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography editJeffreys Jones was born in Carmarthen and grew up speaking Welsh in Harlech Having moved to Harlech at a young age he attended Ysgol Ardudwy the local comprehensive school He attended the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth now Aberystwyth University taking a B A in 1963 During 1964 65 he pursued graduate study at the University of Michigan and during 1965 66 at Harvard University In 1967 Jeffreys Jones took his PhD in American history at Cambridge University in England 2 He stated in 2020 I originally approached American history after following a left wing trajectory that billed the United States as arch conservative arch capitalist and hostile to democratic socialism and world peace 1 He taught as a tutor of history at Harvard s Kirkland House at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge University and for the Transport and General Workers Union before becoming a lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh in 1967 After rising through the academic ranks as a lecturer and reader in 1997 he became the university s second professor of American history or its first exclusive professor of American history given that in 1965 George Sam Shepperson had become Professor of Commonwealth and American History During his career Jeffreys Jones held visiting appointments including a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard 1971 72 a Stipendiary at the JFK Institut fur Nordamerikastudien Berlin Germany and a Canadian Commonwealth Fellowship and visiting professor at the University of Toronto 3 Jeffreys Jones has directed postgraduate students master s and doctoral Jeffreys Jones was one of the founders of the Scottish Association for the Study of America Research and publications editThis section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately Find sources Rhodri Jeffreys Jones news newspapers books scholar JSTOR October 2022 Learn how and when to remove this message Jeffreys Jones began his scholarly pursuits examining the issue of violence in American industry during the Progressive Era including the use of private detective agencies in labor disputes Building on his work involving private detectives who collected intelligence for big business Jeffreys Jones then shifted his focus during the late 1970s to examine American secret intelligence a time when the field began to blossom with the release of historical records and revelations of American intelligence agencies activities Jeffreys Jones published an historical survey examining the development of American intelligence from the establishment of the Secret Service in the 19th century to the CIA in the 20th This was followed by one of the first academic histories of the CIA at a time when most studies were undocumented a book examining American intelligence and exaggeration and a history of the FBI in which Jeffreys Jones traced its origins to the 19th century and the federal government s pursuit of the Ku Klux Klan More recent books by Jeffreys Jones traced the history of British American intelligence cooperation and the recent rise of European Union intelligence and analyzed the achievements of the American left since 1900 The latter book was the winner of the Neustadt Prize for the best British book on American politics published in 2013 His next two books were about the history of surveillance in the US and the UK and about the 1938 Nazi spy ring in America His latest work A Question of Standing brings the history of the CIA up to 2022 making a case for the importance of analysts According to Mark White in BBC History Magazine 1 September 2022 it has a perspective that is both balanced and compelling Published works editBooks edit External audio nbsp A Conversation with Chris Gondek Rhodri Jeffreys Jones and Russell Korobkin Yale Press Podcast Ep 10 March 6 2008 American Espionage From Secret Service to CIA New York Free Press 1977 Violence and Reform in American History New York New Viewpoints 1978 The CIA and American Democracy New Haven Yale University Press 1989 Changing Differences Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy 1917 1994 New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 1995 Peace Now American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War New Haven Yale University Press 1999 Cloak and Dollar A History of American Secret Intelligence New Haven Yale University Press 2002 The FBI A History New Haven Yale University Press 2007 In Spies We Trust The Story of Western Intelligence Oxford Oxford University Press 2013 The American Left Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1900 Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2013 We Know All About You The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 Ring of Spies How MI5 and the FBI Brought Down the Nazis in America Cheltenham The History Press 2020 The Nazi Spy Ring in America Hitler s Agents the FBI and the Case that Stirred a Nation Washington D C Georgetown University Press 2020 A Question of Standing The History of the CIA Oxford Oxford University Press 2022 Books edited edit The Growth of Federal Power in American History DeKalb Northern Illinois University Press 1983 North American Spies New Revisionist Essays Lawrence Kan University Press of Kansas 1991 Book contributions edit What Burleson and Orwell Overlooked Private Security Provision in the United States and the United Kingdom In Private Security and Modern States Historical and Comparative Perspectives edited by David Churchill Dolores Janiewski and Pieter Leloup London Routledge 2020 pp 214 31 J Edgar Hoover In The Federal Bureau of Investigation History Powers and Controversies of the FBI edited by Douglas M Charles Santa Barbara CA ABC CLIO 2022 pp 221 28 Articles since 2015 edit The Death of a Myth How Socialism and the Left Succeeded in America Reviews in American History vol 43 June 2015 pp 281 87 Inter Allied Commando Intelligence and Security Training in Gwynedd The Coates Memoir Intelligence and National Security vol 30 no 4 August 2015 pp 545 59 State Surveillance is More Ethical than Private Sector Intrusions Wired January February 2016 p 97 Antecedents and Memory as Factors in the Creation of the CIA Diplomatic History vol 40 no 1 January 2016 pp 140 54 A Brief History of the FBI s Meddling in US Politics Vox November 5 2016 Verraden Geschiedenis Magazine January February 2017 pp 45 49 Hector Davis A Liberal at War History vol 102 no 350 April 2017 pp 242 58 Forcing Out Unwanted FBI Directors A Brief Messy History Vox May 23 2017 The Sensitivity of SIGINT Sir Alfred Ewing s Lecture on Room 40 in 1927 Journal of Intelligence History vol 17 no 1 2018 pp 18 29 American Espionage Lessons from the Past Brown Journal of World Affairs vol 26 no 1 Fall Winter 2019 pp 93 106 Learning the Scholar s Craft A Journey with Enid Jones John Hope Franklin Sir Denis Brogan Sidney Fine and Oscar Handlin H DIPLO Essay 221 April 29 2020 Nazispionnen in Washington 1937 Geschiedenis Magazine vol 55 no 5 July August 2020 pp 20 24 Leon Turrou and the Nazi Spy Ring in America The Historian vol 82 no 2 2020 pp 138 55 Leon Turrou The Greatest Detective of Them All Strand Magazine September 2020 A Forgotten Scandal How the Nazi Spy Case Affected American Neutrality and German Diplomatic Opinion Passport The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review September 2020 pp 45 48 With R Gerald Hughes Timely Memoirs and the British Invasion Two Trends in the Historiography of the CIA Journal of Intelligence History March 2022 https www tandfonline com doi full 10 1080 16161262 2022 2051920 The Inside Story of the CIA v Russia from cold war conspiracy to black propaganda in Ukraine Insights The Conversation 25 August 2022 https theconversation com the inside story of the cia v russia from cold war conspiracy to black propaganda in ukraine 188550 CIA at War Inside the Agency s Operations from Cold War Hotspots to 21st Century Battlefields Military History Now 31 August 2022 https militaryhistorynow com 2022 08 31 cia at war inside the agencys operations from cold war hotspots to 21st century battlefields Allan Pinkerton Informed Scot or Scottish Informer Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 42 2 2022 197 216 Notes edit a b Jeffreys Jones Rhodri Learning the Scholar s Craft A Journey with Enid Jones John Hope Franklin Sir Denis Brogan Sidney Fine and Oscar Handlin H Diplo Essay 221 2020 Staff profiles Professor Rhodri Jeffreys Jones University of Edinburgh Retrieved 30 June 2013 Contemporary Authors Online Thomson Gale 2006 Further reading editFreedman Lawrence D Review of A Question of Standing The History of the CIA in Foreign Affairs 101 November December 2022 pp 194 5 Daskal Jennifer Public and Private Eyes Foreign Affairs Nov Dec 2017 96 6 pp 139 143 review of We Know All About You Morello John We Know All About You The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America By Rhodri Jeffreys Jones History Jan 2020 105 364 pp 173 175 O Reilly Kenneth review of The FBI A History in American Historical Review June 2008 p 865 Rhodri Jeffreys Jones Gale Literature Contemporary Authors Gale 2018 onlineExternal links editHistory of CIA interview 2022 https app talkshoe com episode 20124243 University profile History Unplugged interview International Spy Museum lecture New Books Network interview Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rhodri Jeffreys Jones amp oldid 1162321092, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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