Richard Gid Powers

Secrecy and Power (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hooverformer FBI director and America's most controversial law enforcerthat draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations. Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all aspects of Hoover's controversial career from the Red Scare following World War I to the 1960s and his personal vendettas against Martin Luther King and the civil rights and antiwar movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781982154493
• Artikelnr.: 58505677

Autorenporträt

Richard Gid Powers is a historian and author of numerous books including Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover and G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and is a professor of history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY.