Powers Richard Gid. Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

Free Press, 1988. — 624 p.A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover-former FBI director and America's most controversial law enforcer-that draws on previously unknown personal documents, a study of FBI files, and the presidential papers of nine administrations. Secrecy and Power is a full biography of former FBI director, covering all aspects of Hoover's controversial career from the Red Scare following World War I to the 1960s and his personal vendettas against Martin Luther King and the civil rights and antiwar movements.