Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover - Hardcover

Summers, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399138005 ISBN 13: 9780399138003

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1993

Synopsis

An examination of the Hoover legacy reveals the true extent to which Hoover abused his power in the FBI to blackmail presidents, public officials, and private citizens and to manipulate domestic and foreign policy. 85,000 first printing. $65,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Review:

"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" (Hilary Mantel Spectator)

"The exposure we have been waiting for these last forty years" (Norman Mailer)

"Garbage... Innuendo, lies" (Cartha DeLoach, former close aide to Hoover)

"The book is more exciting, and more damning, than the film...This is bold, excoriating, unmissable stuff." (Independent on Sunday)

Book Description:

The sensational and definitive account of the life of J Edgar Hoover, America's most celebrated FBI Director, who is now the subject of the J Edgar movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0399138005
• ISBN 13: 9780399138003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1