In focus: The controversial J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI

TWO books published years apart yield important information about J. Edgar Hoover , the controversial former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation . The FBI is the premier domestic intelligence and security agency of the United States — and arguably the most formidable anti-crime agency in the world.Beverly Gage wrote 'G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,' a thick volume that was published by Viking Press New York.

He has been depicted as a racist and a demagogue, a single-minded seeker of power, a small-minded and twisted man intolerant even of his own desires...'During his lifetime, Hoover did as much as any individual in government to contain and cripple movements seeking racial and social justice, and so thus limit the forms of democracy and government that might have been possible.

Focus: The Controversial J. Edgar Hoover Of The FBI

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