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The director : my years assisting J. Edgar Hoover / Paul Letersky with Gordon Dillow.
Van Pelt Library HV7911.H6 L483 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Letersky, Paul, author.
- Dillow, Gordon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Government executives--United States--Biography.
- Government executives.
- United States.
- Employees.
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
- Hoover, J. Edgar.
- Letersky, Paul.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- My years assisting J. Edgar Hoover
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who'd just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret "files" he carefully collected--and that were so feared by politicians and celebrities. Through Letersky's close working relationship with Hoover, and the trust and confidence he gained from Hoover's most loyal senior assistant, Helen Gandy, Paul became one of the few able to enter the Director's secretive--and sometimes perilous--world. Since Hoover's death half a century ago, millions of words have been written about the man and hundreds of hours of TV dramas and A-list Hollywood films produced. But until now, there has been virtually no account from someone who, for a period of years, spent hours with the Director on a daily basis."--Amazon.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mr. Hoovers Fbi
- ch. 2 The Director
- ch. 3 Nightmares In The Daytime
- ch. 4 Secrets
- ch. 5 On The Bricks
- ch. 6 Streetwise
- ch. 7 A Lion And A Tigress In Winter
- ch. 8 Three Days In May
- ch. 9 Aftermath.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781982164706
- 1982164700
- OCLC:
- 1201298878
- Publisher Number:
- 99988110594
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