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W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket 1991. Hardcover. 2 x 9.75 x 6.5 Inches; 846 pages; Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court; how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters; and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. A New York Times bestseller. 32 pages of photographs. . (more information)

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New York, NY: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991. Hard cover with light blue/grey paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, gold printing on spine, is in NEAR FINE condition. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is NEAR FINE. Shocking, grim, frightening, and darkly comic, Curt Gentry's masterful portrait of America's top policeman is the most important political book in years. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, the coauthor of "Helter Skelter," the most successful true-crime book ever, reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, this peculiarly private man held virtually unchecked public power. He manipulated every president from FDR to Nixon but shrank from human contact. Demanding loyalty, he used illegal wiretaps and hidden mikes to destroy anyone who opposed him. How did he help create McCarthyism, blackmail the Kennedy brothers, influence the Supreme Court? How did he retard the civil rights movement? What was his web of connections to notorious mobsters? Why were the investigations of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., "seriously flawed"? A hypochondriac who became a national hero, a bachelor obsessed with sexual slander, J. Edgar Hoover literally changed the course of U.S. history with files known in the Justice Department as "twelve drawers full of political cancer.". First Edition/Fifth Printing Stated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue/Grey Paper-Covered Boards. (more information)

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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, September 1991 1991. Hardcover. VG/VG. 9.8 x 6.5 x 2 inches. Warm gift inscription ffep, closed one inch tear head of front of dust cover, otherwise as new.\n\nFrom Publishers Weekly\n\nIn a richly textured biography of the former FBI director who died in 1972, Gentry, coauthor of Helter Skelter , takes a decidedly unfriendly look at the man and his career, revealing how Hoover found his niche in life as a "hunter of men," served under 10 presidents over a period of five decades, creating what Eleanor Roosevelt characterized as an American Gestapo. We're shown Hoover scheming to help Thomas Dewey replace Harry Truman in the White House in return for a promise that he would be appointed attorney general; making use of secret information on Senator Joseph McCarthy while at the same time contributing significantly to "McCarthyism"; stalking John F. Kennedy even before he went into politics; covertly helping Richard Nixon become president, then virtually forcing the Nixon administration to embark on the road to Watergate. Hoover believed that America's morality was very much his business and, as Gentry demonstrates, the director equated morality with sexual abstinence. His horrified fascination with homosexuality (mixed with a strong streak of misogyny) are masterfully depicted here, as well as his virulent racism, disclosed in fresh material on Hoover's efforts to destroy Martin Luther King Jr. It is hard to imagine another portrait of Hoover that could surpass this one for detail, depth and sheer vitriol. Gentry makes clearer than previous biographers how J. Edgar Hoover became and, for the greater part of his tenure, remained the most powerful man in Washington. Photos. 75,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; BOMC selection; author tour. \nCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\n\n\nFrom Library Journal\n\nSince his death in 1972, there has been an increasing fascination with Hoover and the immense power he wielded as director of the FBI. Although there have been two recent major biographies--Athan G. Theoharis's The Boss ( LJ 6/1/88) and Richard G. Powers's Secrecy and Power ( LJ 2/1/87)--this massive new study promises to be the most extensive and controversial yet. Gentry, who coauthored Helter Skelter ( LJ 11/15/74), has based his account of Hoover on more than 300 interviews and on access to previously classified FBI documents. Beginning with a behind-the-scenes description of Hoover's death and the search for his "secret files" that is novelistic in technique, Gentry paints a portrait of Hoover as the "indispensable man," with many provocative revelations about his political dealings. This is a chilling look at the darker side of American politics, especially concerning Hoover's enemies list and his relentless investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal life. The book's lively readability is balanced by lengthy footnotes and by an extensive list of source notes and interviews, and it will be in demand in both academic and public libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91; see also From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover , reviewed in this issue, p. 125.--Ed.\n- Thomas A. Karel, Franklin & Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\nCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. (more information)

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