Secrecy and Power

von Richard Gid Powers

656 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Strukturen und Prozesse Politische Führer und Führung
• ISBN: 9780029250617
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2020
• Größe: 234 x 154 mm
• Verlag: Free Press