Secrecy and Power

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.

Author: Richard Gid Powers
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 02/08/2020
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.06w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780029250617