J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo."—Newsweek\ Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry’s masterful portrait of America’s top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked...
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"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo."—Newsweek Publishers Weekly Detail, depth, and sheer vitrol mark this portrait of the former FBI director, which was a nine-week PW bestseller and a BOMC main selection in cloth. (Sept.)
Book 1Three Days in May1Tuesday, May 2, 1972192Wednesday, May 3, 1972413Thursday, May 4, 197248Book 2Something Big4Inauguration Day615The Missing Years706"Palmer--Do Not Let This Country See Red!"757The Soviet Ark858The Facts Are a Matter of Record89Book 3The Director9The Department of Easy Virtue10910The Director12411"This Is the Last Straw, Edgar."14512A Stay of Execution154Book 4The Gangster Era13The Rise and Fall of Public Hero Number One16714A Problem of Identity17815The Man Who Came to Dinner189Book 5A Curious Relationship16Coup d'Etat20117Smear21218Roosevelt Calls In His Due Bills22519The View from the Balcony239Book 6The Secret War20"Listen!"27721The FBI Director, the First Lady, and Other Matters298Book 7The Man from Independence22A Case of Somewhat Rancid Morals32123Chief Justice Hoover33824The Punch-and-Judy Show36025Friends, Enemies, and the Investigation of Jesus Christ383Book 8Virtually Untouchable26"We Didn't Want Them to Die."40127An "Incident"435Book 9The Director Versus the General28The Kennedys46729"We Must Mark Him Now."499Book 10On Borrowed Time30Seriously Flawed54131The Fall of LBJ577Book 11The Unforgotten Man32Hail, Caesar!61333Moles64334Under Siege66935The Third Judas68736The Last Days710Epilogue: Pandora's Box725Source Notes761Acknowledgments803Interviews and Other Sources805Bibliography807Index827
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Detail, depth, and sheer vitrol mark this portrait of the former FBI director, which was a nine-week PW bestseller and a BOMC main selection in cloth. (Sept.)\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalSince his death in 1972, there has been an increasing fascination with Hoover and the immense power he wielded as director of the FBI. Although there have been two recent major biographies--Athan G. Theoharis's The Boss ( LJ 6/1/88) and Richard G. Powers's Secrecy and Power ( LJ 2/1/87)--this massive new study promises to be the most extensive and controversial yet. Gentry, who coauthored Helter Skelter ( LJ 11/15/74), has based his account of Hoover on more than 300 interviews and on access to previously classified FBI documents. Beginning with a behind-the-scenes description of Hoover's death and the search for his ``secret files'' that is novelistic in technique, Gentry paints a portrait of Hoover as the ``indispensable man,'' with many provocative revelations about his political dealings. This is a chilling look at the darker side of American politics, especially concerning Hoover's enemies list and his relentless investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s personal life. The book's lively readability is balanced by lengthy footnotes and by an extensive list of source notes and interviews, and it will be in demand in both academic and public libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91; see also From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover , reviewed in this issue, p. 125.--Ed.-- Thomas A. Karel, Franklin & Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.\ \
