
by Curt Gentry · W. W. Norton & Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780393309843

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«J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets» is the biography of J. Edgar Hoover written by Curt Gentry, published by W. W. Norton & Company in paperback (846 pages, in English).
The work examines J. Edgar Hoover's long tenure at the head of the FBI and how he built a narrative of an infallible agency while accumulating power with barely any control. Drawing on interviews and declassified documents, the author addresses illegal wiretaps, blackmail files, his influence over several presidents, and his role in McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, and the investigations into John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography by Curt Gentry of J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director for nearly half a century. The paperback edition includes 846 pages and is published by W. W. Norton & Company.
Recommended for readers interested in US political history, institutional power, and biographies of controversial figures.
