by Anthony Summers · Manufacture de livres éditions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782358871020
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«J.E. Hoover confidential» is Anthony Summers's biography of J. Edgar Hoover (Manufacture de livres éditions, paperback, 556 pp., in French).
Biography of J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director from 1924 to 1972. Anthony Summers documents how Hoover spied on presidents and public figures, amassed compromising files and turned the agency into a political instrument. It also addresses his personal contradictions and his involvement in episodes such as the JFK assassination.
Original work: 'Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover' (1993). French translation by Roland Vallier.
Recommended for readers of biographies and contemporary history who want to learn about the inner workings of power and surveillance in the United States.
Anthony Bruce Summers is an Irish author. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and has written ten non-fiction books. He worked for the BBC in current affairs coverage as a producer and then as an assistant editor of the long-running investigative documentary series Panorama. His first book was published in 1976.
