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Hoover, J. Edgar - (John Edgar Hoover), 1895–1972, American administrator, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), b. Washington, D.C. Shortly after he was admitted to the bar, he entered (1917) the Dept. of Justice and served (1919–21) as special assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. In this capacity he directed the so-called Palmer Raids against


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    The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition » Read Now

    by Athan G. Theoharis, John Stuart Cox. 489 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Acknowledgments The most complete and accurate record of J. Edgar Hoovers conduct as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...house ample documents pertaining to...
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    J. Edgar Hoover and His G-Men » Read Now

    by William B. Breuer. 254 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    As the blood of criminal violence flowed through the streets in early 1920s America, the FBI was rendered helpless by unholy alliances with crooked politicians and shady dealings. A dynamic, young J. Edgar Hoover would change all that. After being named director of the FBI, Hoover quickly whipped...
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    Stalking the Sociological Imagination: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology » Read Now

    by Mike Forrest Keen. 240 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    It is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While no one was above suspicion, Hoover appears to...
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    "Ma'am, What You Need Is a New, Improved Hoover, in Washington Monthly » Read Now

    by Matthew Miller. 8 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...was thought to have died with J. Edgar Hoover. William Websters nine years...Since the bureau has limited resources and cant post an undercover agent...never mind...
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    Hoover Damned: Exposing the Ultimate G-Man - and Finding the Ultimate Bureaucrat, in Washington Monthly » Read Now

    by Taylor Branch. 4 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...by Richard Gid Powers (Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover). Powers fixes Hoovers early character in the values...below. In his first job as a Justice Department...
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    War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture (Chap. 2 "Trained and Intelligent Men of Good Character: Scientific Policing, Masculinity, and Bureau Reform") » Read Now

    by Claire Bond Potter. 252 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...impediment to enforcement In 1926, J. Edgar Hoover reported the apprehension and...the ideological foundation for J. Edgar Hoovers reforms in the Bureau of...
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    G-Men, Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture » Read Now

    by Richard Gid Powers, Daniel M. Finnegan. 280 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...administration. He knew that J. Edgar Hoover had been named director of the...reputation collapsed once again after J. Edgar Hoovers death in 1972. The Bureau of...the...
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    Spying on America: The FBI's Domestic Counterintelligence Program » Read Now

    by James Kirkpatrick Davis. 198 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "COINTELPRO"--an acronym for "Counterintelligence Program"--is the code name the FBI gave to the secret operations aimed at five major social and political protest groups: the Communist party, the Socialist Workers party, the Ku Klux Klan, black nationalist hate groups, and the New Left movement...
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    Protest from the Right ("Vigilantes Not Needed, J. Edgar Hoover" begins on p. 106) » Read Now

    by Robert A. Rosenstone. 150 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...secret but periodically J. Edgar Hoover makes public statements...would like to have Mr. J. Edgar Hoover answer these questions...been acknowledged by J. Edgar Hoover, to...
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    The FBI Nobody Knows (1964) » Read Now

    by Fred J. Cook. 436 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
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    The Great "Red Menace": United States Prosecution of American Communists, 1947-1952 (includes information on J. Edgar Hoover in "An Internal Cold War") » Read Now

    by Peter L. Steinberg. 316 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...after World War II, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover attempted to join the external...Ibid., 331-32. 6. J. Edgar Hoover, On Communism New York...assumption of the Presidency...
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    The Role of Police in American Society: A Documentary History » Read Now

    by Bryan Vila, Cynthia Morris. 318 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    From the night watchmen of the 17th century to the highly publicized Rodney King hearings, the history and development of police policy and the role of police in American society are traced through this collection of 95 primary documents. Students, teachers, and interested readers can use this...

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