The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence

Join the Program in American Grand Strategy on February 19 for a conversation with historian Jeffrey Rogg about his recent book, The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence. Jennifer Siegel will moderate.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Dr. Jeffrey Rogg is Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Florida’s Global and National Security Institute. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Joint Special Operations University (U.S. Special Operations Command) and The Citadel. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the vice president of the Society for Intelligence History and an assistant editor of Intelligence and National Security. His work has appeared in several academic journals and volumes as well as media including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The National Interest, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times.

The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence was published by Oxford University Press in June 2025. It has been called “an ambitious, sweeping, confident (remarkably so given that it is the author's first book), even exuberant book that should be welcomed as a major contribution to a field lacking a similar work." (Hugh Wilford, author of The CIA: An Imperial History.)

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