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Hoover And The Red Scare, 1919-1920
Viral History Press LLC
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
480 pages
ISBN: 1619450011
EAN: 9781619450011
Kindle: B0063LHLT8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
On June 2, 1919, bombs exploded simultaneously in nine
American cities. One destroyed the home of the Attorney
General of the United States, A. Mitchell Palmer. In the
aftermath of World War I, America faced a new enemy—radical
communism. Palmer vowed a crackdown, and, to lead it, he
chose his youngest assistant, twenty-four year-old J. Edgar
Hoover. Under Palmer’s wing, Hoover helped execute a series
of brutal nationwide raids, bursting into homes without
warning, arresting over 10,000 Americans and assembling
secret files on hundreds of thousands of suspects and
political enemies. A handful of lawyers like Clarence Darrow
and future Supreme Court Justices Felix Frankfurter and
Harlan Fisk Stone dared to defend accused radicals in the
name of free speech and civil liberties. YOUNG J. EDGAR
brings to life Palmer’s raids and Hoover ’s coming of age, a
metaphor on post-9/11 America. It reaches the heart of our
current debate on personal freedoms in a time of war and
fear. Editorial Reviews “[F]eatures demagogues; terrorists;
a gullible, xenophobic public; rogue law enforcement
officials; and good guys, both in and out of government, who
discredit the raids. Ackerman captures well the pathological
character of the young Hoover…. “ –Publishers Weekly “[A]
history to savor.” -- Richmond Times-Dispatch Ackerman
(“Boss Tweed”) does an outstanding job portraying the Teflon
quality of Hoover…. ‘Young J. Edgar’ is a book that
demonstrates forcefully the corrupting nature of power in
the hands of flawed government officials. It’s panoramic,
detailed and extremely timely. -- Huntington News As hard as
Mr. Ackerman is on Hoover, he does not demonize him…. [A]
chilling account of how the rule of law in a war on terror
can be subverted into a war of terror. --New York Sun
"Ackerman's extremely well-written and thoroughly researched
history … convincingly refuted Hoover's dishonest effort to
minimize his own central role in promoting the first Red
Scare of the World War I and early 1920s era." -- Athan
Theoharis, Emeritus Professor at Marquette University and
author of The FBI and American Democracy, and The Quest for
Absolute Security.
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