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Book Condition: Used good
Seller: Ground Zero Books

United States
About Item: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. good. 374, glossary, bibliography, appendices, index, some wear to board corners and spine edges. No dust jacket present. Inscribed by the author. John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as director of the Bureau of Investigation, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924. In June 1935, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI, where he remained director for 37 years until his death in May 1972. Hoover expanded the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency and instituted a number of modernizations to policing technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover also established and expanded a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List. Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as… Read More
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