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Very good in very lightly edgeworn jacket Cloth.

xiv, 489p., b/w illus., dj.

Hardback. 1 St UK. J Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Philadelphia. 1988. Temple University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 087722532x. 489 pages. hardcover. keywords: FBI Politics History. DESCRIPTION - A biography in which the authors drew on new and highly sensitive evidence to create a shocking portrait of the man who headed the FBI for 48 years. In 1925 'the Boss' opened 'obscene' files to record damaging personal and sexual information on a host of prominent American figures: from the Roosevelts to the Kennedys no-one was excluded. He used these files ruthlessly and, in the process, transformed the FBI from a small government agency into one of America's most powerful institutions. On the surface Hoover appeared an administrative genius - efficient, professional and apolitical: few knew how he operated behind the scenes, to the extent that the authors suggest McCarthyism would have been more accurately named Hooverism. Drawing on secret files, they discovered records of break-ins, phone-tappings, orders for buggings, as well as information on some of America's most public figures. And, in a series of interviews with members of Hoover's family, as well as politicians, FBI agents and even some of Hoover's targets, an extraordinary portrait emerges of a man with an insatiable thirst for power who manipulated American politics for nearly half a century. inventory #23067.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. In 1925 J. Edgar Hoover secretly began to maintain an "Obscene File" in the FBI laboratory and two other files in his office that were kept separate from the FBI's central record system and that recorded accounts of sexual activities and damaging personal information on dissident activists, prominent leaders and personalities, even presidents and first ladies. 489 pages with index. Dust jacket is Near Fine with only slight wear and a small closed tear on the spine. Book is in Fine condition. Nf/F. ; 489 pages.

HB BLACK CLOTH FRONT FREE ENDPAPER CORNER CLIPPED ELSE FINE PP489 DW FINE 8V0 Sub-titled J.Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition.