Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties by Kenneth D. Ackerman

Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties

Kenneth D. Ackerman

496 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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In 1919, when J. Edgar Hoover was 24 years old, a New York City postal clerk discovered sixteen bombs wrapped in individual packages — America's first instance of homegrown terrorism. Then-Attorney General Palmer vowed a crackdown and enlisted Hoo...

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