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In this gripping spectacular piece of reporting Ken Burns a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist examines Senator Frank Church the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government

For decades now Americas national security state has grown ever bigger ever more secretive and powerful and ever more abusive Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it

Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world But he was still politically ambitious privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president Despite his flaws Church would show historic strength in his greatest moment when in the wake of Watergate he was suddenly tasked with investigating abuses of power in the intelligence community The dark truths that Church exposedfrom assassination plots by the CIA to links between the Kennedy dynasty and the mafia to the surveillance of civil rights activists by the NSA and FBIwould shake the nation to its core and forever change the way that Americans thought about not only their government but also their ability to hold it accountable

Drawing upon hundreds of interviews thousands of pages of recently declassified documents and reams of unpublished letters notes and memoirs some of which remain sensitive today Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter James Risen tells the gripping untold story of truth and integrity standing against unchecked powerand winninginThe Last Honest Man

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