Curt Gentry

J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

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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, blackmaile… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-32128-9
EAN: 9780393321289
Produktnummer: 19232954
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 846 S.
Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D4.5 cm 1'072 g
Gewicht: 1072

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.