The Vendetta: FBI Hero Melvin Purvis's War Against Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's War Against Him by Alston; Tresniowski, Alex Purvis ISBN 13: 9781586483012

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Public Affairs, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: . 363 pages. Lightly yellowed pages; tight book; very good shape. The jacket has light wear; a sticker on the spine. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; ISBN: 1586483013. Inventory No: 193844. .

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New York, New York: Public Affairs Books, 2005. 1st Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Volume itself has two tone brown covers with gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality cover. Book is clean and binding is tight. Number line in the book reads as follows: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1; above this line are the words first edition. A very nice copy.

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New York: Public Affairs. Hardcover. 2005. 1st Edition. 8vo 363pp . Very Good+ in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. (1903-1960) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. He is noted for leading the manhunts that tracked such outlaws as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger .

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New York: PublicAffairs. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. His son tells the life story of Melvin Purvis, once an iconic G-man and public hero, who was destroyed not by the famous villains of the 1930s but by the jealousy of his boss, J. Edgar Hoover By the end of 1934 Melvin Purvis was, besides President Roosevelt, the most famous man in America. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the neophyte FBI's remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression-John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd; Baby Face Nelson. America finally had its hero in the War on Crime, and the face of all the conquering G-Men belonged to Melvin Purvis. Yet these triumphs sowed the seeds of his eventual ruin. With each new capture, each new headline touting Purvis as the scourge of gangsters, one man's implacable resentment grew. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, was immensely jealous of the agent who had been his friend and protege, and vowed that… Read More

PublicAffairs, 2005-10-10. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1586483013 First Edition, Dust jacket and book are clean- jacket price not clipped, clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations- no remainder mark.

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