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A Special Agent: Gay and Inside the FBI is Frank Buttino's memoir, co-authored with his brother Lou. Buttino writes about his career as a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and his dismissal once his homosexuality was made public. What follows here, though, is a sinking dirigible comprised of an enormous cast of characters, some of whom appear briefly only to vanish, or to turn up pages later.

An important story—but a lackluster treatment that will engage only the most resolute of readers. They did, eight months before he died, which was less than two years after the original diagnosis. Photographs—not seen.

Zinn has no doubts about where he stands in this "people's history": "it is a history disrespectful of governments and respectful of people's movements of resistance. A Special Agent provides a thrilling and intimate look inside the FBI.

In vivid detail, Frank recalls his firsthand experiences working on some of the most famous FBI investigations of our time, including the tragic Mitrione case, and the interrogation (in Frank's dining room) of Mafia member turned government informant Jimmy "The Weasel" Fraianno.

Reviews Former Special Agent Buttino grew up in upstate New York, graduated from Colgate University and joined the FBI in After 20 years of service, an anonymous letter to. But despite the poor presentation, the enduring reader will find here a man of courage and unusually principled character, one whose sanity makes the FBI look like the Mad Hatter's tea party: While Buttino was in a command post in San Diego, for instance, directing agents in an investigation of an Iranian-inspired bombing, the Bureau was putting him through polygraphs and interviews daily for three months, designed to revoke his top-secret clearance—treatment that brought Buttino to thoughts of suicide.

To hear Zinn tell it, all anyone did in America at any time was to oppress or be oppressed; and so he obscures as much as his hated mainstream historical foes do—only in Zinn's case there is that absurd presumption that virtually everything that came to pass was the work of ruling-class planning: this amounts to one great indictment for conspiracy.

Should he return to neurosurgery he could and didor should he write he also did? Should he and his wife have a baby? A Special Agent provides a thrilling and intimate look inside the FBI. In vivid detail, Frank recalls his firsthand experiences working on some of the most famous FBI investigations ofour time, including the tragic Mitrione case, and the interrogation (in Frank's dining room) of Mafia member turned government informant Jimmy "The Weasel" Fraianno.

A jumbled account of how Frank Buttino, a year FBI special agent, is fired--and fights back--when the Bureau receives an anonymous letter accusing him of being gay.

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So begins a Golgotha-like road of four years of harassment of Buttino by the Bureau—including the revocation of his security clearance, followed by his discharge- -and of Buttino's maverick decision to be the first to fight the FBI's unwritten policy against gays.

For Howard Zinn, long-time civil rights and anti-war activist, history and ideology have a lot in common. A jumbled account of how Frank Buttino, a year FBI special agent, is fired—and fights back—when the Bureau receives an anonymous letter accusing him of being gay.

The letter includes a collection of billets-doux from someone answering personals in gay magazine: These appear to be in Buttino's handwriting. Part of what makes this book so essential is the fact that it was written under a death sentence following the diagnosis that upended his life, just as he was preparing to end his residency and attract offers at the top of his profession.

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Share your opinion of this book. Frustratingly, the story ends with the author's suit against the FBI still unresolved. More awkward still are Buttino's Norman Rockwell- styled pictures of gay life, perhaps intended to show that gays are really no different from straights.

Instead of negating the one-sided histories he detests, Zinn has merely reversed the image; the distortion remains. Kalanithi learned he might have 10 years to live or perhaps five. A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular A neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.

And throughout this ever-shifting cast winds a labyrinthine coil—spun by the author with the help of his brother, Lou For the Love of Teddi, —of minute legal maneuvering. Add the laborers and indentured servants that followed, plus women and later immigrants, and you have Zinn's amorphous constituency.

Despite surface similarities, this is not a social history, since we get no sense of the fabric of life. Zinn starts out by depicting the arrival of Columbus in North America from the standpoint of the Indians which amounts to their standpoint as constructed from the observations of the Europeans ; and, after easily establishing the cultural disharmony that ensued, he goes on to the importation of slaves into the colonies.