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| J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Geary
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 170603
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0809095033
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.25092
EAN: 9780809095032
ASIN: 0809095033
Publication Date: January 8, 2008
Release Date: January 8, 2008
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Product Description
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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Rick Geary Takes a Look at Hoover and the FBI March 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rick Geary does it again with his graphic biography of an American icon, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI. He uses his trademark illustrative style to chart the course of Hoover's life from birth to death, and all points in between. Hoover is now a controversial figure thanks to some scandalous, yet unproven rumors (mostly about his personal life), but Geary treats his subject matter fairly, and portrays Hoover in an unbiased fashion. This is a new venture from Geary's excellent "Treasury of Victorian Crime" series, and it does not disappoint. Anyone looking for a concise, yet thoroughly enjoyable biography of Hoover need look no further.
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