Rhodri Jeffreys‐jone

Biographic Data

ID3661865
NAMERhodri Jeffreys‐jone
GIVEN NAMESRhodri
FAMILY NAMEJeffreys‐jone
SIGNATUREJONE R J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-6401-3869
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS53
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT53
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • The Hidden Cost of Freedom

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEJournal of American History2026

  • The Pinkerton Pause

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEIntelligence & National Security2024

    Why has the privatization of US national security been a feature of recent history? Scholars have pointed to the need for rapid security expansion post 9/11 and to changes in economic and political ideology. As a supplementary reason, this article proposes the ending of the ‘Pinkerton Pause’, 1893–1977. Following the Homestead debacle of 1892, Congress passed the Anti-Pinkerton Act, banning detective agencies from federal service and effectively …

  • Agnes M. Driscoll

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEHistorian2023

  • The Listeners

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEJournal of American History2023Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States Get access The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. By Brian Hochman. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $35.00.) Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 3, December …

  • Who Prolonged the First World War

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEDiplomatic History2022

    Journal Article Who Prolonged the First World War? Get access Daniel Larsen. Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914-1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 418 pp. $39.99 (hardcover). Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 46, Issue 4, September 2022,…

  • Allan Pinkerton

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEJournal of Scottish Historical…2022

    Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884) has a conflicted legacy. To some, the founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA) pioneered law and order on the American frontier, upheld principles of racial equality, and prepared the way for better public police forces including the FBI. To others, Pinkerton betrayed the values of his Scottish youth: he had been a champion of militant workers in Scotland, and participated in revolutionary uprisings in…

  • Double Crossed

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    In Double Crossed Matthew Avery Sutton agrees with the finding of a 1970s U.S. Senate inquiry, arguing that the Central Intelligence Agency (Cia) should not deploy missionaries. He believes that the resources of the Cia are now sufficiently adequate and that the agency no longer needs to deploy godly men and women in a manner that breaches separation of church and state. The situation was different during the military emergency that faced the nat…

  • Leon Turrou and the Nazi spy ring in America

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEHistorian2020

    In 1938, the FBI’s Leon Turrou investigated a Nazi spy ring that was operating in the United States. He proved that the ring had stolen American military secrets, planned to kidnap a senior officer in the US Army, and plotted to establish a honey-trap brothel in Washington, DC. Turrou then conducted a propaganda campaign against the Nazis, culminating in a Warner Brothers movie, Confessions of a Master Spy. German diplomats calculated that the sp…

  • Hollywood's Spies

    Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    In April 1939 Warner Bros. released the movie Confessions of a Nazi Spy, which told the story of how a heroic Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent, Leon Turrou, exposed and destroyed a German spy ring operating in the United States. It was the first Hollywood movie to tackle the Nazi menace head on, but not the industry's earliest contribution to the struggle against fascism. Laura B. Rosenzweig, an independent scholar working in the Off…

  • The FBI in Latin America

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐jone, RHODRI JEFFREYS‐JONESARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2018

  • The Social Misconstruction of Reality

    Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneBOOKSocial Misconstruction of Reality2017

    From the time of the ancient Greeks, thinkers have known the earth is round. Yet popular legend has persisted that Columbus proved this fact for the first time, and scholarship abounds with similar perpetuated errors. Why do social misconstructions—widely shared, long-lasting acceptance of facts or interpretations that are mistaken—persist when ample evidence is readily available to counter them? How and why are corrections resisted or dismissed?…

  • Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China

    Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneBOOKNegotiating Daily Life in…2017

    This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, langua…

  • Hector Davies

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐jone, RHODRI JEFFREYS‐JONESARTICLEHistory2017

    Extrapolating from a particular case, the article argues that experience of the Second World War was capable of broadening combatants’ minds, and of helping to shape their post‐war attitudes. Before the war, Hector Davies was a Bank of England official. From 1940 he served in Nigeria and Chad, where he was responsible for British military liaison with the Free French Equatorial commander, Jacques Leclerc. After a period in Gaza and Cairo, he join…

  • The Devil's Chessboard

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 1

    The founder of Salon and a progressive journalist, David Talbot has set himself the task of rehearsing in detail a sometimes-familiar litany of misdeeds by the most famous director of the Central Intelligence Agency (cia). His readable account furnishes biographical background and runs through a number of contentious issues. He portrays Allen Dulles as not quite an anti-Semite but rather as someone whose sympathies never rose above the freezing p…

  • Antecedents and Memory as Factors in the Creation of the CIA

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEDiplomatic History2014

    Journal Article Antecedents and Memory as Factors in the Creation of the CIA Get access Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 140–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhu068 Published: 18 December 2014

  • Jessie Jordan

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐jone, RHODRI JEFFREYS‐JONESARTICLEHistorian2014

    This article is about a spy or agent, not an intelligence “officer.” Unusually for a discourse on a spy, it is about a working‐class person. It is about someone who was female and not glamorous. It

  • The American Left

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneBOOKAmerican Left2013

    How left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA, from the 1900s to the present day Winner of the American Politics Group’s 2013 Neustadt Book Prize Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left’s numerous achievements, including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of American culture, black rights and civil liberties, awakening the USA to the …

  • The American Left

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneBOOKAmerican Left2013

    Only the right has recognized the potency of the American left. The book explains why others have underestimated the left in the USA, citing the relative absence of a free press in America, the disposition of the left to deny its own existence in the name of pragmatism, and the left’s fallacy that the right is always wrong, and thus in error in pointing to the left’s impact. The book sets forth the achievements of the left. These achievements inc…

  • Presidential and Prime Ministerial Women in the Americas

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEHistory of Women in the Americas2013

    The Americas and Latin America in particular are sharply in advance of the global norm when it comes to the incidence of female presidential and prime ministerial leadership. One reason is the relatively high and increasing incidence of democracy on the two continents. Another is that the Americas are more progressive than other parts of the world. The relatively peaceful state of the region over the last half century is an additional factor, for…

  • The Threat on the Horizon

    Open AccessRhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2012

  • Covert Action in the Cold War

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐jone, R Jeffreys-JonesARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    This book is a critique of covert operations run by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from its creation in 1947 to the death of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Its author, James Callanan, has taught at a cluster of universities in the northeast of England and dedicates his work to “the pioneers of America's cold war intelligence community.” He describes the CIA’s conservative counterintelligence chief James Angleton as having been “prescie…

  • Angleton's Self-Invalidating Fallacy

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEDiplomatic History2010

    James Jesus Angleton (1917–1987) is a legendary figure. The outline of his career is well known. After Yale and Harvard, he worked in U.S. counterintelligence in wartime Italy, rising to be chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) unit devoted to that activity. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after its formation in 1947. From 1954 until his resignation in 1975, he served as head of the counterintelligence staff in that agen…

  • Safe for Democracy

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐jone, R Jeffreys-JonesARTICLEJournal of American History2007Cited by: 6

    Journal Article Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the cia Get access Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the cia. By Prados John. (Chicago: Dee, 2006. xxxviii, 696 pp. $35.00, isbn978-1-56663-574-5.) Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones University of EdinburghEdinburgh, Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 94, Issue 1, June 2007, Pages 337–338, https:/…

  • Murder by Index Card

    Rhodri Jeffreys‐joneARTICLEDiplomatic History2004

    John Prados is a senior researcher at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C.1 Thus he is emblematic of a great American tradition: fact-finding in the interest of open government and a well-informed democracy. In the book under review, he writes about the professional life of a significant but neglected figure in the history of United States national security policy. William E. Colby (1920–1996) served with the Office of Strategic Serv…

  • The Rosenberg File

    Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri Jeffreys‐jone et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    This is a video that gets more sophisticated as it moves along. It opens with broad strokes of the filmic brush. They paint a scene of 1940s Cold War tension, of a band of Communist conspirators who spied for the Soviet Union, and of a remorseless process of detection by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its helpers that led to the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on a charge of having betrayed atomic secrets to the Russians. …