J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
ISBN-13:
9780393321289
ISBN-10:
0393321282
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Curt Gentry
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
848 pages
Category:
United States
,
Historical
,
Law Enforcement
,
Professionals & Academics
,
United States History
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ISBN-13:
9780393321289
ISBN-10:
0393321282
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Curt Gentry
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
848 pages
Category:
United States
,
Historical
,
Law Enforcement
,
Professionals & Academics
,
United States History
Summary
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (ISBN-13: 9780393321289 and ISBN-10: 0393321282), written by authors
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"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo." ―Newsweek
Shocking, grim, 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; as well as insight into the Watergate scandal and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. 32 pages of photographsWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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