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J. Edgar Hoover : a graphic biography
- Author
- Geary, Rick.
- Title
- J. Edgar Hoover : a graphic biography / by Rick Geary.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.
- Description
- 102 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007025193-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007025193-d.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Summary
- Presents a graphic biography of former director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, who served under eight presidents from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon. Crime-fighter, commie-buster, and moral crusader, J. Edgar Hoover certainly saw himself as the FBI's own action hero. In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, his 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 headline-grabbing pursuit of John Dillinger and George "Machine Gun" Kelly in the 1930s to Hoover’s increasingly paranoid post-World War II 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's-eye view on the twentieth century.--Back cover.
- Subject headings
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972--Comic books, strips, etc. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Officials and employees--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc. Police--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc. Government executives--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
- ISBN
- 9780809095032 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0809095033 (hbk. : alk. paper)