An Interactive Biography of J. Edgar Hoover (Enhanced Edition) Book

Includes over 10 minutes of video highlighting the life of J. Edgar Hoover and his leadership of the FBI.
Includes pictures of Hoover and important people, places, and events in his life.
*Discusses the rumors surrounding Hoover's secret files and sexuality.

"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody." – J. Edgar Hoover

Everyone has read about history's most important people and events in dense textbooks and classrooms, but words can only say so much. In Charles River Editors' Interactive Biography series, history comes to life in video and audio, allowing people to experience history through the eyes and ears of the people who were there.

No single figure in 20th century American history inspires such opposing opinions as J. Edgar Hoover, the iconic first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. To many Americans in the 30s, 40s, and 50s J. Edgar Hoover was a real American hero. In a country suffering from the Great Depression and the crime wave of the early 1930s, Hoover was the symbol law and order as his "G-Men" used the newest in scientific crime solving methods to bring gangsters like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson to justice.

But by the 1960s and 1970s Hoover the hero had become Hoover the villain. Various exposes and investigations revealed a darker side to the legend, one that included serious violations of the civil liberties of individuals. Shortly after his death in 1972, the Hoover legend was in tatters, replaced by a caricature of a vain, vindictive, power-mad petty dictator who was a closet homosexual and cross-dresser.

An Interactive Biography of J. Edgar Hoover looks at the amazing life and career of the FBI Director, including the unprecedented successes, notorious lows, and all the myths and controversies inbetween. You will learn about J. Edgar like you never have before.?