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

Summers, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480435201 ISBN 13: 9781480435209

Publisher: Open Road Media, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1480435201
• ISBN 13: 9781480435209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 628