J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Antidote

by Athan G. Theoharis

Book Overview

Was J. Edgar Hoover a homosexual? And did organized-crime leaders, knowing this, blackmail the FBI director into leaving them alone? These charges won almost instant popular acceptance when they were aired in a sensational biography of Hoover in 1993. But Athan Theoharis, the foremost authority on Hoover and the FBI, here shows that the accusations are spurious--and not nearly as intriguing as Hoover's real attitudes toward sex and organized crime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566630711
• ISBN13: 9781566630719
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Hoover Critic Debunks Summers

Academic debunking of Anthony Summers' scandalous "Official and Confidential" superbly researched and written by a noted critic of J. Edgar Hoover. Summers' bestselling volume used uncorroborated gossip and hearsay to "prove" the late FBI director was a closet homosexual and transvestite blackmailed into submission by organized crime. Theoharis, author of such previous works as "From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover" and "The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition", sticks to the facts and uses solid scholarship to dismiss the Summers book as baseless.