Uses a graphic novel format to provide a portrait of the life and career of J. Edgar Hoover, his service under eight presidents, his place in the creation of the FBI, his often turbulent personal life, and his role during Prohibition, the Cold War, and the civil rights movement.
A biography in the format of a graphic novel offers a fascinating portrait of the life and career of J. Edgar Hoover, his service under eight presidents--from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon--his place in the creation of the FBI, his often turbulent personal life, and his role during Prohibition, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and more.
A True History of Violence (and Crimefighting, Politics, and Power)
In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents—from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon—and everything from Prohibition to cold war espionage. From a nascent FBI's headlinegrabbing tracking down of Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly in the 1930s to Hoover's increasingly paranoid post-WWII authorizing of illegal wiretaps, blackmail, and circumvention of Supreme Court decisions, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography provides a special window into the life of an outsized American and a bird'seye view on the twentieth century.
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