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Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies

Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies

Aronson, Marc

Hardcover

Young Adult Nonfiction

Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 0763650250
ISBN13: 9780763650254
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Apr 10 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.30 Width: 7.80 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Awards: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Tayshas Reading
A fascinating and timely biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist.

Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in an anonymous letter in 1964. He believed that the letter was telling him to commit suicide. Who wrote this anonymous letter? The FBI. And the man behind it all was J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's first director. In this unsparing exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the twentieth century, accomplished historian Marc Aronson unmasks the man behind the Bureau- his tangled family history and personal relationships; his own need for secrecy, deceit, and control; and the broad trends in American society that shaped his world. Hoover may have given America the security it wanted, but the secrets he knew gave him -- and the Bureau -- all the power he wanted. Using photographs, cartoons, movie posters, and FBI transcripts, Master of Deceit gives readers the necessary evidence to make their own conclusions. Here is a book about the twentieth century that blazes with questions and insights about our choices in the twenty-first. Back matter includes an epilogue, an author's note, source notes, a bibliography, and an index.

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