Official and Confidential
The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
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4.1 • 59 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A New York Times–bestselling author's revealing, "important" biography of the longtime FBI director (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. Ultimately, Summers paints a portrait of a fatally flawed individual who should never have held such power, and for so long.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Summers's expose throws light on Hoover's relentless corruption and other skeletons in his closet. Photos.
Customer Reviews
The Secret Life if J. Edgar Hoover
What a fascinating book this was. So much information was obtained by the author. At times it had to have been exhausting.
It was amazing that this ‘icon’ was able to control and even paralyze so many men by the ‘dirt’ he had in them. If these men had lived a more moral life with greater integrity Hoover wouldn’t have been able to subdue them. I didn’t read of one person who was able tell him to go to hell to his face who had nothing for him to use against them. But then again he would make up something anyway. It really gave me pause to think of what is going on in our present day. I feel bad for the many he harassed, smeared and destroyed in his quest to control everything. I hope there is no one like him still in our midst.