As the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover served a controversial forty-eight-year tenure: spying, amassing secret files, and ferreting out what he deemed as threats to national security. All methods were employed to subvert those he saw as disloyal, from the gangster fights of the 1930s to the Communist witch hunts of the 19505; from attempts to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr., to COINTELPRO's tactics designed to suppress potentially dangerous political groups from 1956 to1971. In a ...
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As the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover served a controversial forty-eight-year tenure: spying, amassing secret files, and ferreting out what he deemed as threats to national security. All methods were employed to subvert those he saw as disloyal, from the gangster fights of the 1930s to the Communist witch hunts of the 19505; from attempts to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr., to COINTELPRO's tactics designed to suppress potentially dangerous political groups from 1956 to1971. In a meticulously researched look at Hoover's life, Marc Aronson weighs such possible influences as upbringing, sexuality, and racial heritage on Hoover's actions and beliefs, while challenging readers to make informed decisions about what it means to balance national security and human rights. This provocative biography is heavily illustrated with photographs, cartoons, gossip column snippets, magazine covers, FBI memos, and other archival documents, many never before published.
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