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Secrecy and Power  -  The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

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Secrecy and Power - The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

by Powers, Richard Gid

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London: Hutchinson, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. x + 624 pages. 30 illustrations. As head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover created a unique role for himself in American life - one that had never existed before, one that wil probably never exist again. Who was this man who engineered the notorious Palmer Raids at the age of 24; whose enemies ranged from John Dillinger to Martin Luther King; who reviled homosexuality, yet was often accused of it and kept files on his accusers; who was a law-and-order hero to one generation and a police-state villain to the next? Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, an exhaustive study of FBI files, and the Presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers presents a full-blooded portrait of the man behind the G-Man image, finding a personality more complex than Hoover's critics or defenders have brought to light. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.18 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Secrecy and Power - The Life of J. Edgar Hoover
Author
Powers, Richard Gid
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0091725984
ISBN 13
9780091725983
Publisher
Hutchinson
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1987
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
FBI, AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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Biography - American - General;

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