Within arm's length
Subtitle: the extraordinary life and career of a special agent in the United States Secret Service
By: Dan Emmett
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781462070725; 9781462070732
Subjects: Officials and employees; United States. Secret Service; United States; Protection; Presidents; Biography
Description: "This memoir describes the professional challenges faced by Secret Service agents as well as the physical and emotional toll that can be inflicted on both agents and their families. Within arm's length also shares firsthand details about the duties and challenges of conducting presidential advances, dealing with the media, driving the president in a bullet-proof limousine, running alongside him through the streets of Washington, and flying with him on Air Force One"--Book jacket.
Table of contents: title: The death of a president and birth of a career; title: College, the Marine Corps, and Ronald Reagan; title: Never give up unless you are dead; title: The Charlotte Field Office; title: Special agent training; title: Back to Charlotte; title: The New York Field Office; title: The Counter Assault Team (CAT); title: The agent who loved me ... eventually; title: Human shields and operant conditioning; title: The Presidential Protective Division (PPD); title: Shaping the next generation; title: Retirement.