A New York Times–bestselling author’s revealing, “important” biography of the longtime FBI director (The Philadelphia Inquirer). 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 … 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 individual who should never have held such power, and for so long.
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Very well researched, build the FBI into a great origination but should have been replaced buy Truman.
Interesting at the beginning but becomes repeatitive.
I couldn’t get past the forward of this piece of biased nonsense. It was painfully obvious from the beginning that this was nothing but a character slamming, one sided highly prejudicial waste of time.
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This book is just one more reason, at least for me, not to trust anyone’s outward persona. You can never, ever know a person’s true self. Everyone has an agenda. People are packaged by the media and the government like any other product to be sold to a gullible public.