By Marc Aronson
A desirable and well timed biography of J. Edgar Hoover from a Sibert Medalist.
"King, there's just one factor left that you should do. you recognize what it's. . . . You larger take it ahead of your filthy, irregular, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Dr. Martin Luther King obtained this call for in an nameless letter in 1964. He believed that the letter was once telling him to dedicate suicide. Who wrote this nameless letter? The FBI. And the fellow in the back of all of it was once J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's first director. during this unsparing exploration of 1 of the main robust american citizens of the 20th century, finished historian Marc Aronson unmasks the fellow in the back of the Bureau- his tangled kin historical past and private relationships; his personal desire for secrecy, deceit, and keep watch over; and the wide traits in American society that formed his international. Hoover could have given the United States the safety it sought after, however the secrets and techniques he knew gave him
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Fortunately, just the right person had made a name for himself in the Alien Enemy Bureau of the Justice Department and was aching to get that job: an ambitious young man who saw a sharp line between good and evil, American and alien, and whose only indulgence was a taste for dapper clothes: John Edgar Hoover. On July 1, 1919, Hoover was promoted; he was now a special assistant to the attorney general. ” This was a perfect match of man and moment. By 1920, 579 agents working for what was then called the Bureau of Investigations were combing the country for dangerous radicals.
There W ill Have to Be Bloodshed” 21 PALMER’S RIGHT-HAND MAN Capturing the criminals who had sent a man with dynamite to his own doorway was only the first step. Palmer needed to calm the nation by eliminating the larger threat to every sleeping child. He was not sure exactly who had planted the bombs, but he had a very good general sense. Communists who agreed with Lenin, anarchists who wanted to destroy all governments, immigrants from Russia who did not cherish America’s laws and traditions — he knew how to find them.
He knew exactly what Marx and Lenin advocated, on paper. To him, words predicted actions: Marx and Lenin spoke of the need for revolution. Communists believed in Marx and Lenin. So, he 30 MASTER OF DECEIT reasoned, Communists must be threats to the American government. Clearly, then, Communist immigrants did not belong in this country. Post grew up in New York City, traveled to South Carolina in 1871 to gather evidence against the Ku Klux Klan, and made his name in Chicago advocating for teachers and other workers.