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The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
Knopf
January 2014
On Sale: January 7, 2014
608 pages
ISBN: 0307962954
EAN: 9780307962959
Kindle: B00DXKHGEC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
The never-before-told full story of the 1971
history-changing break-in of the FBI offices in Media,
Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists--quiet,
ordinary, hardworking Americans--that made clear the
shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected,
that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating his own
shadow Bureau of Investigation.
The book shows
how the break-in, and subsequent release of the contents of
the FBI's files to newspapers across the country, upended
the public's perception of the up-till-then inviolate head
of the Bureau, paving the way for the FBI's overhaul for the
first time since its inception forty-seven years before, in
1924, and setting the stage for the sensational release
three months later by Daniel Ellsberg of the top-secret
seven-thousand-page Pentagon study of U.S. decision making
regarding the Vietnam War that became known as the Pentagon
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