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

Summers, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067188087X ISBN 13: 9780671880873

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1994

Synopsis

Documents Hoover's closet homosexuality and transvestism, his service to the Mafia, his blackmail of John F. Kennedy, his subversion of the Warren Commission, and other sensational abuses committed during his fifty years as head of the FBI. Reprint.

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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: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 067188087X
• ISBN 13: 9780671880873
• Binding: Paperback