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Employees Government executives Government executives United States Biography Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar) 1895-1972 Letersky, Paul United States United States History 20th century United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees Biography United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Letersky, Paul
Summary: "In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who'd just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret "files" he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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Summary: "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022