The Director an Oral Biography of J. Edgar Hoover - Tapa blanda

J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the FBI for 48 years from May 10, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972. During most of that time, the view the general public had of Hoover was much as if he had been seated on the Right Hand of God. Late in his career one of his agents had the temerity to inform him that he was, after all, not Jesus Christ. By then, clamors for his removal had reached a crescendo. Three successive presidents, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon had wanted to put him into retirement, but were afraid to do so because they knew that he held secret files on them and could ruin them politically if he released those files.

Ovid Demaris, born in Biddeford, Maine, received an A.B. from the College of Idaho and an M.S. in journalism from Boston University. He was a reporter with the Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Boston Daily Record before joining the United Press, and later became Ad Copy Chief of the Los Angeles Times. For the past years he has been a free-lance writer. Mr. Demaris is the author of sixteen paperback originals, which have been translated and published in eighteen countries.