J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover's FBI was an American gestapo. —NewsweekShocking, 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 hidd…
Mehr
CHF 26.45
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-34350-2
- EAN: 9780393343502
- Produktnummer: 34246667
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 848 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'979 KB
- Abbildungen: 32 pages of photographs
Über den Autor
Curt Gentry (1931-2014), an Edgar winner, was the author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Frame-Up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, and co-author of Helter Skelter with Vincent Bugliosi.
9 weitere Werke von Curt Gentry:
Bewertungen
Anmelden