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Overview

J. Edgar Hoover, the most powerful lawman in America for over fifty years, was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep him from office. During that time, Hoover completely reshaped domestic law enforcement as he expanded the reach of the FBI and transformed his G-men into an elite national crime fighting division. Despite his contributions to the criminal justice system, Hoover fell from favor soon after his death, the victim of rampant rumors and innuendo. In

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J. Edgar Hoover, the most powerful lawman in America for over fifty years, was also the country's most controversial and feared public servant. His career as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spanned nine different presidential administrations and survived a dozen attempts to sweep him from office. During that time, Hoover completely reshaped domestic law enforcement as he expanded the reach of the FBI and transformed his G-men into an elite national crime fighting division. Despite his contributions to the criminal justice system, Hoover fell from favor soon after his death, the victim of rampant rumors and innuendo. In

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As in his smart biographies of Howard Hughes (Hughes) and Ted Turner/Rupert Murdoch (Clash of the Titans), Hack brings a novelist's flair for drama and a journalist's nose for truth to the life of another controversial figure. With unsourced renditions of Hoover's and others' internal monologues, Hack creates some transparency for the legendary FBI chief's tantalizingly opaque psyche. His most controversial conclusion about Hoover's private life is that, despite his weird intimacy with sidekick Clyde Tolson and his household collections of male nudes and Chinese ceramics, Hoover was not gay. Rather, he was dependent for sexual excitement on furtive perusal of smut from the FBI's Obscene Files and was enamored of certain Hollywood stars, named here. Hack's account of Hoover's public life, meanwhile, zings. He covers Hoover's career from his initial exploits tracking down dissidents through his headline-grabbing pursuit of Depression-era outlaws to his postwar crusade against left-wing subversion, one increasingly out of step with the country during his Vietnam-era decline. Hack's balanced but quite critical treatment details the brilliant self-promotion, which made Hoover a national hero, as well as the paranoid anticommunism, the secret files on presidents and pinkos alike, the illegal surveillance and wiretaps and the racist antagonism to the Civil Rights movement that later made him a villain in many eyes. Hack says too little about the FBI as an institution or its crime-fighting methods, treating it mainly as an extension of Hoover's personal and political agenda. But he does offer a live-wire biography of a determined, energetic, lonely and insecure man who comes off here as much a puppet as master, a consummate bureaucratic infighter all too pathetically aware of his vulnerability to shifts in political power. 6 pages of b&w photos. (Apr.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781597775120
  • Publisher: Phoenix Books, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/1/2007
  • Pages: 455
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 8.92 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Hack has been an investigative writer for 20 years, covering Hollywood and the media for much of that time. He frequently appears on television as a commentator.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Death of an Icon 1
Chapter 1 To Be Good is Not Enough, When You Dream of Greater Things 27
Chapter 2 Alien Threat 51
Chapter 3 Sex, Lies, and the Fbi 75
Chapter 4 The Electric Wire 101
Chapter 5 Crimes of the Century 129
Chapter 6 Hooray for Hollywood 159
Chapter 7 Ascent of Power 185
Chapter 8 A Foundation Built on Sand 215
Chapter 9 Roses are also Red 245
Chapter 10 A Pansy Is Only a Flower 269
Chapter 11 Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs 299
Chapter 12 Mobsters and Murders 327
Chapter 13 The Emperor Has No Clothes 357
Epilogue: The Legacy, the Legend 397
Appendix 408
Acknowledgments 413
Notes 415
Bibliography 425
Index 431
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 21, 2006

    hack does it again

    Hack once again hits pay dirt with this well thought out book. I knew little of Hoover going into this book. Hack is fair about his assessment of Hoover and in general, the F.B.I. Of interest here is a document detailing Martin King's verbal bashing of JFK and his wife.Even with the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT the federal government will not release,even today, the full text of that wire tapped event.

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