Official and Confidential: the Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover

For nearly fifty years J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded when he died as an American hero. Anthony Summers' controversial bestseller 'Official & Confidential The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover' draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myths exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover's lifetime. Hoover used his intimate knowledge of the John F. Kennedy's sex life to ensure that Lyndon B. Johnson became Vice President and suppressed evidence about J.F.K's assassination. Hoover himself meanwhile was a closet homosexual which allegedly led to him being blackmailed by the Mafia. This fascinating book reveals that even Hoover's death on the eve of Watergate was clouded with mystery. Witnesses have indicated that in the panic over the secrets he was holding over President Nixon an operation was mounted to break into his house - possibly even to murder him.