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October Surprise

How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election

by Devlin Barrett

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Length
336 pages
Published
September 22, 2020
Publisher
PublicAffairs
ISBN-13
978-1541761971
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    The Birth of an October Surprise

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