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Official and Confidential

The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

Anthony Summers
3.8
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Pages
619
Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Media

About

Anthony Summers peels back layers of fact and hearsay to reveal the truth about one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century   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.

Related Subjects

  • Historical
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Political
  • General
  • Political Process
  • Political Science

Reviews

"An important book that should give us all pause, especially policy makers."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"I read Official and Confidential with mounting horror, fascination, revulsion . . . Enthralling."
Paul Theroux
"Summers' book is not just a history of a single hero-sized hypocrite, it is a history of a vast national delusion."
The Philadelphia Inquirer

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