{"product_id":"official-and-confidential-the-secret-life-of-j-edgar-hoover-9780091941772","title":"Official and Confidential The Secret Life of J","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoover was lauded when he died as an American hero. Anthony Summers'' controversial bestseller, \u003ci\u003eOfficial \u0026amp; Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover\u003c\/i\u003e, draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover''s lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoover used his intimate knowledge of the John F. Kennedy''s sex life to ensure that Lyndon B. Johnson became Vice President, and suppressed evidence about J.F.K''s assassination. Hoover himself, meanwhile, was a closet homosexual, which allegedly led to him being blackmailed by the Mafia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating book reveals that even Hoover''s death, on the eve of Watergate, was clouded with mystery. Witnesses have indicated that, in the panic over the secrets he was holding over President Nixon, an operation was mounted to break into his house - possibly even to murder him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI read \u003ci\u003eOfficial and Confidential \u003c\/i\u003ewith mounting horror, fascination, revulsion... Enthralling -- Paul Theroux\u003cbr\u003eSummers' book is not just a history of a single hero-sized hypocrite, it is a history of a vast national delusion -- Hilary Mantel * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eThe exposure we have been waiting for these last forty years -- Norman Mailer\u003cbr\u003eGarbage... Innuendo, lies -- Cartha DeLoach, former close aide to Hoover\u003cbr\u003eThe book is more exciting, and more damning, than the film...This is bold, excoriating, unmissable stuff. * Independent on Sunday *","brand":"Ebury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017508815191,"sku":"9780091941772","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780091941772.jpg?v=1750773782","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/official-and-confidential-the-secret-life-of-j-edgar-hoover-9780091941772","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}