Secrecy and Power

by Richard Gid Powers

Book Overview

A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover--former FBI director and America's most controversial law enforcer--that 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029250617
• ISBN13: 9780029250617
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Best Life of Hoover Written

This book is widely, and rightly, regarded as the best and most accurate biography of J. Edgar Hoover. Without an axe to grind, Mr. Powers presents the man, warts and all, in the most believable version of him among all the books existing on Hoover and the FBI. This is the gold standard.