Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2012
Summary
The sensational and definitive account of the life of J. Edgar Hoover, America’s most celebrated FBI Director.
For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century.
Hoover was lauded when he died as an American hero. This controversial bestseller draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myt…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091941772 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0091941776 |
| Author: | Anthony Summers |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 427g |
| Dimensions: | 37mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
I read Official and Confidential with mounting horror, fascination, revulsion… Enthralling
I read Official and Confidential with mounting horror, fascination, revulsion… Enthralling – Paul Theroux
Summers’ book is not just a history of a single hero-sized hypocrite, it is a history of a vast national delusion – Hilary Mantel * Spectator *
The exposure we have been waiting for these last forty years – Norman Mailer
Garbage… Innuendo, lies – Cartha DeLoach, former close aide to Hoover
The book is more exciting, and more damning, than the film…This is bold, excoriating, unmissable stuff. * Independent on Sunday *
Fascinating and alarming. – Gore Vidal
Anthony Summers
Anthony Summers is a writer, journalist, and television producer. After education at Oxford University, he began his career in television with Granada TV’s ‘World in Action’ investigative current affairs program. He moved on to the BBC, traveling worldwide and becoming a Deputy Editor of the flagship ‘Panorama’ program. Coverage for the BBC included the Vietnam War and the Middle East conflict, and extensively the United States, notably the Martin Luther King assassination and Robert Kennedy’s presidential bid.
He is the bestselling author of:
- The File on the Tsar (1976)
- The Kennedy Conspiracy (1980)
- Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (1985)
- Honeytrap (1987)
- Not in Your Lifetime: The definitive book on the J.F.K. Assassination (1998)
- The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon (1998)
- Sinatra: The Life (2005)
- The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9⁄11 & Osama bin Laden (2011)
Anthony lives in Ireland with his wife and three children.
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