Gentry: J Edgar Hoover: The Man & The Secrets (cloth) - Hardcover

Gentry, Curt.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393024040 ISBN 13: 9780393024043

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992

Synopsis

Shocking grim, and at times, darkly comic, this devastatingly detailed biography chronicles the rise of the nation's legendary top policeman--and the reign of terror that made the FBI the closest thing America had to a gestapo. Curt Gentry reveals Hoover as a paranoid man who intimidated every president from FDR to Nixon, yet shrank from human contact. And he describes in riveting detail how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, influenced the Supreme Court, and sabotaged the Warren Commission's investigation of the assassination of JFK. A hypochondriac who became a national hero, a bachelor prude obsessed with sexual slander, J. Edgar Hoover literally changed the course of history with the files known in the Justice Department as "twelve drawers full of political cancer."

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Review:

This massive new study promises to be the most extensive and controversial yet A chilling look at the darker side of American politics. "

The most extensive and controversial [book on Hoover] yet...A chilling look at the darker side of American politics.

Synopsis:

Utilizing material amassed from over 300 interviews and previously classified documents, this portrait of the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals how such a powerful yet paranoid man was able to create the myth of an invincible, incorruptible organization.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0393024040
• ISBN 13: 9780393024043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 846