Secrecy and Power
1st Edition
Published on 4. February 2020
624 pages
978-1-9821-5449-3 (ISBN)
Description
A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover?former FBI director and America's most controversial law enforcer?that draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations.
Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all aspects of Hoover's controversial career from the Red Scare following World War I to the 1960s and his personal vendettas against Martin Luther King and the civil rights and antiwar movements.
Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all aspects of Hoover's controversial career from the Red Scare following World War I to the 1960s and his personal vendettas against Martin Luther King and the civil rights and antiwar movements.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Secrecy and Power
- Chapter 1 : The Hoovers of Seward Square
- Chapter 2: The Alien Enemy Bureau
- Chapter 3: The Red Years: The Lessons of Success
- Chapter 4: The Red Years: The Lessons of Failure
- Chapter 5: The Assistant Director
- Chapter 6: The Progressive Years
- Chapter 7: The New Deal FBI
- Chapter 8: The FBI Front
- Chapter 9: Domestic Security for the Cold War
- Chapter 10: The Eisenhower Presidency
- Chapter 11: Kennedy Justice
- Chapter 12: LBJ's FBI
- Chapter 13: Nixon and Hoover
- Epilogue: Freedom of Information
- Photo Insert
- About the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
