by Anthony Summers · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433925336
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For forty-eight years, from 1924 to 1971, J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the all-powerful FBI. In the United States, political parties alternated in power and presidents of different persuasions succeeded one another, but Hoover remained. He was possibly one of the most hated and feared men in the entire American political spectrum, but none of the seven presidents who served during his long tenure at the head of the intelligence services dared to dismiss him. Anthony Summers, after several years of exhaustive investigation and interviews with key figures in the life of J.E. Hoover, reveals the dark secrets of the life of one of the most powerful figures of the 20th century: a covert homosexual who cross-dressed at private parties while blackmailing politicians less skilled than him in hiding their inclinations and peccadilloes. The most powerful policeman in the most powerful country, an indefatigable hammer of communism, leaders of civil movements and objectors to the Vietnam War, who was nevertheless extorted by the great bosses of the Mafia; a pursuer of corruption who did not hesitate to accept gifts from powerful millionaires and used the FBI as if it were his private estate.
Anthony Bruce Summers is an Irish author. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and has written ten non-fiction books. He worked for the BBC in current affairs coverage as a producer and then as an assistant editor of the long-running investigative documentary series Panorama. His first book was published in 1976.
