Drawing from more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Curt Gentry reveals how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost 50 years, Hoover held public power that was virtually unchecked and manipulated 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.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By Crazy Joe
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This book weighs in at over 800 pages, but even this is barely enough to cover the life and work of a man who was Director of the FBI for almost 50 years. Whilst some history books are rather dry to say the least, the author's journalistic background is evident, as the book is immensely readable without the quality of scholarship being compromised.
'J Edgar Hoover' takes us chronologically through the life of Hoover, positing interesting theories about why he was such a secretive man willing and able to use and abuse his power for 48 years. This book is based on previously unreleased papers, and if you want to find out in one text how Hoover sought to smash the supposed threats to America from groups such as the Communists and people like Martin Luther King, then this text is highly recommended. As a book that demonstrates the awesome power that unelected people can wield in the supposed 'Greatest Democracy in the World,' perhaps it also contains a message that those government officials who talk of dangerous subversives may in fact be the people who do most to subvert democracy in the world.
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This book is quite a read, over 700 pages of print. It is not a political book, but necessarily mentions events and persons involved at the time. It is well researched and is written in such a way as to hold the reader's interest. At times I found it hard to put the book down! It's full of fascinating facts and as I was in my early twenties during the sixties, I remember many of the events and people referred to. For any reader it is a salutary warning of how one man can attain and keep so much power. Of how many innocent people's lives were ruined by the FBI under Hoover.
The book is a very good read and well worth the time spent reading it. Thanks Curt.
The book is a very good read and well worth the time spent reading it. Thanks Curt.
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I really liked this biography on Hoover. It went into details about his files and such, which I found to be very interesting. It makes a good, rainy day, read:)enjoy:)
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