Official and Confidential The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

Name: Official and Confidential The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
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ISBN: 9781480435209

ISBN-10: 1480435201

ISBN-13: 9781480435209

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Authors: Anthony Summers

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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…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date: 6/18/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 628
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers has written Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Goddess: The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe and Not in Your Lifetime, a book about the Kennedy assassination. Summers received the British Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction in 1980 for Conspiracy.