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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. Anthony Summers' controversial bestseller, "Official & Confidential, The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover", draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover's lifetime. Hoover used his intimate knowledge of the John F. Kennedy's sex life to ensure that Lyndon B. Johnson became Vice President, and suppressed evidence about J.F.K's assassination. Hoover himself, meanwhile, was a closet homosexual, which allegedly led to him being blackmailed by the Mafia. This fascinating book reveals that even Hoover's death, on the eve of Watergate, was clouded with mystery. Witnesses have indicated that, in the panic over the secrets he was holding over President Nixon, an operation was mounted to break into his house - possibly even to murder him.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover
• Author: Anthony Summers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640
• EAN: 9780091941772
• ISBN: 0091941776
• ID: 04427120
• Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 203 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. January 2012

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