Secrecy and Power: Life Of J. Edgar Hoover
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- Synopsis
- A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover—former FBI director and America&’s most controversial law enforcer—that draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations.Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all aspects of Hoover&’s controversial career from the Red Scare following World War I to the 1960s and his personal vendettas against Martin Luther King and the civil rights and antiwar movements.
- Copyright:
- 1987
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781982154493
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780029250617
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 02/04/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Richard Gid Powers
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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