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1) MLK/FBI
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
The former assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who became one of the few able to enter the Director's secretive--and sometimes perilous--world, offers unprecedented insight into one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in American history.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 596 pages ; 25 cm
Description
An account of the 1971 break-in of the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists cites their roles in triggering major changes in the FBI and confirming that J. Edgar Hoover had run a personal shadow-FBI.
4) J. Edgar
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Description
"J. Edgar Hoover [was] head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 537 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intelligence is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct political warfare, and how the Bureau became the most powerful intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 837 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He...
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