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Hoover's FBI

The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant

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Hoover's FBI

By: Cartha D. DeLoach
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
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Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the film J. Edgar, directed by Clint Eastwood.

As director of the FBI for over five decades, J. Edgar Hoover left a profound and lasting legacy on this most celebrated institution. Only the few who were part of Hoover's inner circle know the truth about his controversial years of authoritarian rule and the organization's inmost secrets.

One of Hoover's trusted deputies, DeLoach gives us the most authentic account ever written of the FBI, setting the record straight about questions that have plagued modern history. From the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., to the FBI crusades against organized crime and the Communist Party, to Hoover's disputed sexual orientation and the secret files he allegedly kept to blackmail hostile members of Congress, here is the gripping narrative of a government agency caught on a tightrope between presidential administrations and the limits of the law.

©1995 by Cartha DeLoach (P)1996 by Blackstone Audiobooks Americas Elections & Political Process Freedom & Security Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government United States World
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An interesting account, in many ways misnamed as this is DeLoach's memoir.

Some of it is a bit out of date and hasn't aged well (DeLoach's attitude to homosexuality) and its fairly clear Hoover and Tolson were a couple (irrespective of whether they slept together.. we'll never know that). But very incisive rebuttal of some of the more lurid, made up accounts of Hoover's sexuality.

Particularly informative about LBJ and the FBI given DeLoach's special relationship with Johnson. It is much more informative about Hoover in the 60s because that is when DeLoach was around

Overall good and interesting account

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give you an insite into the inside workings of hoovers FBI and hoover himself., lots of things you thought you knew are wrong about the man and the FBI opened my eyes

good read

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I'm very glad I brought this book, it's cleared away the rumours surrounding Edgar J Hoover and his years director of the F. B. I. Although a bit boring in a few places, and the jumping back and forward, this is a book is a very good listen

Hoovering up the facts.

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