Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

By Richard Gid Powers

Book Overview

Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, a study of F.B.I. files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations, this biography reveals the public record and private life of J. Edgar Hoover, America's most controversial law enforcer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029250609
• ISBN13: 9780029250600
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The Best Life of Hoover Written

This book is widely, and rightly, regarded as the best and most accurate biography of J. Edgar Hoover. Without an axe to grind, Mr. Powers presents the man, warts and all, in the most believable version of him among all the books existing on Hoover and the FBI. This is the gold standard.