Secrecy and power: the life of J. Edgar HooverDrawing on previously unknown personal documents, thousands of FBI files, interviews with former agents, and the presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers reveals a man of inalterable ideals and convictions who clung to a private vision of an orderly, traditional America, and who vowed to crush anyone who threatened it. |
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| Title | Secrecy and power: the life of J. Edgar Hoover |
| Author | Richard Gid Powers |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1987 |
| Length | 624 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Biography & Autobiography / Law Enforcement Political Science / General |
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