Download American Legends: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover AudioBook Free
"We are a fact-gathering corporation only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody." (J. Edgar Hoover) A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. No single figure in 20th-century American record inspires such opposing opinions as J. Edgar Hoover, the iconic first director of the Government Bureau of Analysis. In his time he was arguably the most powerful nonelected figure in america government. Offering under eight presidents (and outliving two of these), he remains the longest-serving brain of a major government office. But in essence Hoover perished as he began: as a civil servant, having been appointed by the attorney general and portion at the pleasure of the president. But no civil servant had ever accrued the energy and general population attention that Hoover does. To many People in the usa in the '30s, '40s, and '50s, J. Edgar Hoover was a real American hero. Hoover was the mark of legislations and order in a country experiencing the Great Depressive disorder and the offense wave of the early 1930s. His "G-Men" used the hottest in scientific offense solving methods to bring gangsters like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson to justice. Within the 1940s he secured a country at conflict from German and Japanese spies and saboteurs. In the 1950s, he led the demand against Soviet spies and local Communists who he saw as undermining the organizations of the country.
