Secrecy and Power
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Secrecy and Power
By (Author) Richard Gid Powers
Simon & Schuster
The Free Press
3rd October 1988
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
656
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 48mm
821g
Description
A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hooverformer FBI director and Americas most controversial law enforcerthat 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 Hoovers 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.
Author Bio
Richard Gid Powers is a historian and author of numerous books including Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover and G-Men: Hoovers FBI in American Popular Culture. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and is a professor of history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
