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The Chancellor Manuscript is a 1977 novel, by American writer Robert Ludlum, about the alleged secret files of J. Edgar Hoover and how they disappeared after his death, and how they possibly could be used to force people in high places to do the bidding of those who possessed the secrets contained therein.
J. Edgar Hoover was the nominal author of a number of books and articles, although it is widely believed that all of these were ghostwritten by FBI employees. [169] [170] [171] Hoover received the credit and royalties. Hoover, J. Edgar (1938). Persons in Hiding. Gaunt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56169-340-5. Hoover, J. Edgar (February 1947).
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century is a biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover by historian Beverly Gage, first published by Viking Press in 2022. As the first biography of Hoover in 30 years, the 800-page volume uses new sources uncovered by Freedom of Information Act requests.
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, W. W. Norton, 1991, ISBN 978-0393024043 [3] The Madams of San Francisco: An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate, Doubleday and Company, 1964, paperback reprint 1971; The Killer Mountains: A Search for the Legendary Lost Dutchman Mine, World Publishing Company (1969)
Her 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, [7] the 2023 Bancroft Prize and Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History. [8] It was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography .
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FBI directors get those 10-year terms as the result of a post-Watergate law that was in response to J. Edgar Hoover’s much-too-long and controlling 48-year leadership of the FBI.
Nero Wolfe is hired to force the FBI to stop wiretapping, tailing and otherwise harassing a woman who gave away 10,000 copies of a book that is critical of the Bureau and its director, J. Edgar Hoover. The Doorbell Rang generated controversy when it was published, due largely to its unflattering portrayal of the FBI, its director and agents.
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