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Author Letersky, Paul, author.

Title The director : my years assisting J. Edgar Hoover / Paul Letersky with Gordon Dillow.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Scribner, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  363.25 LET    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.2509 LETERSKY    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  363.25 LETERSKY    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  363.2509 LET    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.25 LE    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xviii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who'd just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret "files" he carefully collected--and that were so feared by politicians and celebrities. Through Letersky's close working relationship with Hoover, and the trust and confidence he gained from Hoover's most loyal senior assistant, Helen Gandy, Paul became one of the few able to enter the Director's secretive--and sometimes perilous--world. Since Hoover's death half a century ago, millions of words have been written about the man and hundreds of hours of TV dramas and A-list Hollywood films produced. But until now, there has been virtually no account from someone who, for a period of years, spent hours with the Director on a daily basis."--Amazon.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
Contents Prologue: In a city of weak men -- Mr. Hoover's FBI -- The Director -- Nightmares in daytime -- Secrets -- On the bricks -- Streetwise -- A lion and a tigress in winter -- Three days in May -- Aftermath.
Subject Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
Letersky, Paul.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Government executives -- United States -- Biography.
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972. (OCoLC)fst00039087
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. (OCoLC)fst00528882
Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
Government executives. (OCoLC)fst00945319
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
Added Author Dillow, Gordon, author.
Added Title My years assisting J. Edgar Hoover
ISBN 9781982164706 (hardcover)
1982164700 (hardcover)
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