LEADER 00000cam a2200505 i 4500 
001    on1201298878 
003    OCoLC 
005    20210819034045.0 
008    201023s2021    nyuaf    b    001 0beng d 
020    9781982164706|q(hardcover) 
020    1982164700|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1201298878 
040    YDX|beng|erda|cYDX|dBDX|dDYJ|dHBP|dIH9|dOCLCO|dOQX|dCPL
       |dOCLCF 
049    CKEA 
050  4 HV7911.H6|bL483 2021 
082 04 363.25092|223 
100 1  Letersky, Paul,|eauthor. 
245 14 The director :|bmy years assisting J. Edgar Hoover /|cPaul
       Letersky with Gordon Dillow. 
246 3  My years assisting J. Edgar Hoover 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bScribner,|c2021. 
300    xviii, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and  
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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. 
600 10 Hoover, J. Edgar|q(John Edgar),|d1895-1972. 
600 10 Letersky, Paul. 
600 17 Hoover, J. Edgar|q(John Edgar),|d1895-1972.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00039087 
610 10 United States.|bFederal Bureau of Investigation|xOfficials
       and employees|vBiography. 
610 17 United States.|bFederal Bureau of Investigation.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00528882 
650  0 Government executives|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  7 Employees.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00909111 
650  7 Government executives.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00945319 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Dillow, Gordon,|eauthor. 
994    C0|bCKE