The Secret Life Of J. Edgar Hoover - Hardcover

Anthony Summers

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9780575042360: The Secret Life Of J. Edgar Hoover

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ISBN 10: 0575042362 ISBN 13: 9780575042360

Publisher: Gollancz, 1993

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Summers, Anthony, Official And Confidential: The Secret Life Of J. Edgar Hoover

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About the Author:

Anthony Summers has covered wars and other world news events for the BBC. He has written four previous books, including "Conspiracy", an acclaimed study of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and "Goddess", a best-selling biography of Marilyn Monroe. Summers lives in Ireland with his wife, Robbyn, and has two sons.

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"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 *

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