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J. Edgar Hoover
The Man and the Secrets
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J. Edgar Hoover
"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo." —Newsweek
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Shocking, grim, and frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America’s top policeman is a unique political biography.
From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon.
He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters; and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
J. Edgar Hoover is a New York Times bestseller and includes 32 pages of photographs.
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J. Edgar Hoover by Curt Gentry is extensively detailed and promises to be a thorough exploration of its subject. Library Journal describes it as a massive study that reveals a chilling perspective on the darker aspects of American politics.
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ISBN: 9780393321289
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 March 2001
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 32 pages of photographs
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 41.0mm
Width: 157.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 805g
Pages: 848
About the Author
Curt Gentry (1931-2014), an Edgar winner, was the author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, and co-author of Helter Skelter with Vincent Bugliosi.
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