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Official and Confidential : the Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

For nearly fifty years, Hoover was the most powerful man in the USA. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death in 1972, he played a key role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentiethcCentury. When he died, Hoover was lauded as an American hero. This title reveals the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover's lifetime.

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  • "Official and confidential"@ja
  • "Official and confidential"
  • "ontmaskering van een FBI-directeur"
  • "Ai de jia. hu fo mi shi"
  • "埃德加. 胡佛秘史"
  • "Secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"
  • "Secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"@en

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  • "J.E Hoover est embauché par le "Bureau d'investigation" au lendemain de la première guerre mondiale. Il se consacre sans délai à la chasse aux communistes qui restera, toute sa vie durant, sa hantise. Nommé directeur en 1924, il sera le patron du FBI jusqu'à sa mort en 1972. 50 ans d'histoire d'américaine sont ici retracés."
  • "For nearly fifty years, Hoover was the most powerful man in the USA. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death in 1972, he played a key role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentiethcCentury. When he died, Hoover was lauded as an American hero. This title reveals the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover's lifetime."@en
  • "Presidents yearned to fire him, but were daunted by his storehouse of damaging secrets. Public officials and private citizens lived in fear of his illegal surveillance and harassment tactics. Now, in this ground-breaking, at times shocking biography, J. Edgar Hoover, the man who ruled over the FBI for nearly fifty years, emerges definitively as one of the greatest menaces of our times. Official and Confidential, by the award-winning investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers, is the first book to expose the public - and the private - J. Edgar Hoover. Other biographers have hinted at the dark secrets in the Director's life, but Summers courageously discloses the truth. After conducting more than eight hundred interviews and obtaining access to previously concealed documents, Summers has created a chilling portrait of a legendary figure who blatantly abused the public trust. J. Edgar Hoover, Summers establishes, was a closet homosexual and transvestite. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America. J. Edgar Hoover shamelessly accepted gifts and free lodging from millionaire oilmen, and appropriated FBI facilities for his personal use. J. Edgar Hoover influenced the course of World War II by ignoring an early warning about Pearl Harbor. J. Edgar Hoover used his knowledge of John F. Kennedy's womanizing to ensure that Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He relied on dirty tricks to stay in office under Kennedy and subverted the Warren Commission's probe into the investigation of his death. J. Edgar Hoover himself was the target of a Watergate-era burglary attempt - and perhaps even a murder plot. With these and other astonishing disclosures, Summers defines a man and his times. He explores Hoover's troubled youth as the son of a mentally ill father and a highly demanding mother, and the development of the obsessive behavior that dominated his later years. Summers takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, as a zealous young lawyer rebuilds an ineffectual corps of agents into a massive force capable of police-state tactics. With riveting detail, Summers documents Hoover's behind-the-scenes role in war and peace through fifty years and eight presidential administrations. Richly anecdotal, meticulously researched, Official and Confidential depicts some of the most controversial and colorful events of our century. Here is a disturbing lesson in how one man was able to abuse his position of power and change the course of American history."@en
  • "Presidents yearned to fire him, but were daunted by his storehouse of damaging secrets. Public officials and private citizens lived in fear of his illegal surveillance and harassment tactics. Now, in this ground-breaking, at times shocking biography, J. Edgar Hoover, the man who ruled over the FBI for nearly fifty years, emerges definitively as one of the greatest menaces of our times. Official and Confidential, by the award-winning investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers, is the first book to expose the public - and the private - J. Edgar Hoover. Other biographers have hinted at the dark secrets in the Director's life, but Summers courageously discloses the truth. After conducting more than eight hundred interviews and obtaining access to previously concealed documents, Summers has created a chilling portrait of a legendary figure who blatantly abused the public trust. J. Edgar Hoover, Summers establishes, was a closet homosexual and transvestite. Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay. Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold in America. J. Edgar Hoover shamelessly accepted gifts and free lodging from millionaire oilmen, and appropriated FBI facilities for his personal use. J. Edgar Hoover influenced the course of World War II by ignoring an early warning about Pearl Harbor. J. Edgar Hoover used his knowledge of John F. Kennedy's womanizing to ensure that Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He relied on dirty tricks to stay in office under Kennedy and subverted the Warren Commission's probe into the investigation of his death. J. Edgar Hoover himself was the target of a Watergate-era burglary attempt - and perhaps even a murder plot. With these and other astonishing disclosures, Summers defines a man and his times. He explores Hoover's troubled youth as the son of a mentally ill father and a highly demanding mother, and the development of the obsessive behavior that dominated his later years. Summers takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, as a zealous young lawyer rebuilds an ineffectual corps of agents into a massive force capable of police-state tactics. With riveting detail, Summers documents Hoover's behind-the-scenes role in war and peace through fifty years and eight presidential administrations. Richly anecdotal, meticulously researched, Official and Confidential depicts some of the most controversial and colorful events of our century. Here is a disturbing lesson in how one man was able to abuse his position of power and change the course of American history."
  • "Anthony Summers peels back layers of fact and hearsay to reveal the truth about one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. Ultimately, Summers paints a portrait of a fatally flawed individual who should never have held such power, and for so long."@en
  • "For nearly fifty years, Hoover was the most powerful man in the USA. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death in 1972, he played a key role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth Century. When he died, Hoover was lauded as an American hero."
  • "Het publieke en het privéleven van de man die bijna vijftig jaar lang directeur van de FBI was (1895-1972)."

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  • "Biographies"
  • "Biographie"
  • "Biography"@es
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  • "Biography"
  • "History"@en
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Official and Confidential : the Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover"@en
  • "조작된신화, 존에드거후버"
  • "Le plus grand salaud d'Amérique : J. E Hoover, patron du FBI"
  • "Daitōryōtachi ga osoreta otoko : FBI chōkan Fūvā no himitsu no shōgai"
  • "Official and confidential : the secret life of J.Edgar Hoover"
  • "美国联邦调查局局长埃德加·胡佛秘史"
  • "Chojaktoen sinhwa, Jon Edŭgŏ Hubŏ"
  • "Oficial y confidencial la vida secreta de J. Edgar Hoover"@es
  • "Official and Confidential The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover"
  • "J. Edgar Hoover - der Pate im FBI"
  • "La vita segreta di J. Edgar Hoover : direttore dell'F.B.I"
  • "Official and confidential : the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"
  • "Official and confidential : the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"@en
  • "Meiguo lian bang diao cha ju ju zhang, Aidejia Hufo mi shi"
  • "Official and confidential the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"
  • "Official and confidential the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"@en
  • "大統領たちが恐れた男 : 長官フーヴァーの秘密の生涯"
  • "Official and Confidential"@en
  • "Official & confidential : the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"@en
  • "Official & confidential : the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover"
  • "Daitōryōtachi ga osoreta otoko : efubīai chōkan fūvā no himitsu no shōgai"@ja
  • "Le plus grand salaud d'Amérique : J.E. Hoover, patron du FBI"
  • "Oficial y confidencial : la vida secreta de J. Edgar Hoover"
  • "Oficial y confidencial : la vida secreta de J. Edgar Hoover"@es
  • "Daitōryōtachi ga osoreta otoko"@ja
  • "Le plus grand salaud d'Amérique : J.E Hoover, patron du FBI"
  • "Mei guo lian bang diao cha ju ju zhang ai de jia · hu fo mi shi"
  • "Meiguo lian bang diao cha ju ju zhang Aidejia Hufo mi shi"
  • "J.E. Hoover confidential"
  • "大統領たちが恐れた男 : FBI長官フーヴァーの秘密の生涯"
  • "Mei guo lian bang tiao cha ju ju chang ai de jia. hu fu bi shi"
  • "Official and confidential"@en
  • "Official and confidential"
  • "J. Edgar Hoover : der Pate im FBI"
  • "Official and Confidential the Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover"@en
  • "美国联邦调查局局长埃德加. 胡佛秘史"
  • "Official and confidential: the secret life of"
  • "Het J. Edgar Hoover dossier"

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