Unbridled Power: Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS

Hired by the IRS as its first -- and last -- official historian, Shelley Davis was afforded a rare glimpse into the nation's most feared government agency. What she saw, and what she writes, will outrage you. Learn the shocking truth behind its closed doors: A secret plot to destroy presidential tax returns The real  story of the IRS and the Watergate Enemies List Botched efforts to computerize and the resulting cover-up Deliberate destruction of self-incriminating records Use of taxpayer privacy laws by the IRS to protect itself from public scrutiny Audits of political enemies "Shelley's story speaks directly to that pervasive fear so many of us law-abiding Americans feel, deep in our guts, that our own government is, at best, hiding something from us, and at worst, working against those folks it exists to serve." -- From the foreward by Mary Matalin