Full name: J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

Author: Curt Gentry Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393321289 0393321282

Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters; as well as insight into the Watergate scandal and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Similar books: Official and Confidential by Anthony Summers Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin Five Sisters by James Fox Henry Clay by David S. Heidler The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry Thomas Jefferson by Willard Sterne Randall Fallen Founder by Nancy Isenberg Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One by Blanche Wiesen Cook Daniel Webster by Robert V. Remini The Rockefellers by Peter Collier Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin Grant by Ron Chernow The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner