J. Edgar Hoover : : the man and the Secrets

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Call Number: 921 Hoover, J. Edgar
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Book 1. Three Days in May. 1. Tuesday, May 2, 1972 --- 2. Wednesday, May 3, 1972 --- 3. Thursday, May 4, 1972 ---- Book 2. Something Big. 4. Inauguration Day --- 5. The Missing Years --- 6. "Palmer--Do Not Let This Country See Red!" --- 7. The Soviet Ark --- 8. The Facts Are a Matter of Record ---- Book 3. The Director. 9. The Department of Easy Virtue --- 10. The Director --- 11. "This Is the Last Straw, Edgar." --- 12. A Stay of Execution ---- Book 4. The Gangster Era. 13. The Rise and Fall of Public Hero Number One --- 14. A Problem of Identity --- 15. The Man Who Came to Dinner ---- Book 5. A Curious Relationship. 16. Coup d'Etat --- 17. Smear --- 18. Roosevelt Calls In His Due Bills --- 19. The View from the Balcony ---- Book 6. The Secret War. 20. "Listen!" --- 21. The FBI Director, the First Lady, and Other Matters ---- Book 7. The Man from Independence. 22. A Case of Somewhat Rancid Morals --- 23. Chief Justice Hoover --- 24. The Punch-and-Judy Show --- 25. Friends, Enemies, and the Investigation of Jesus Christ ---- Book 8. Virtually Untouchable. 26. "We Didn't Want Them to Die." --- 27. An "Incident" ---- Book 9. The Director Versus the General. 28. The Kennedys --- 29. "We Must Mark Him Now." ---- Book 10. On Borrowed Time. 30. Seriously Flawed --- 31. The Fall of LBJ ---- Book 11. The Unforgotten Man. 32. Hail, Caesar! --- 33. Moles --- 34. Under Siege --- 35. The Third Judas --- 36. The Last Days ---- Epilogue: Pandora's Box.
Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentryʹs masterful portrait of Americaʹs 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; and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Back cover.

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