Hoover | Guns, Gangsters and G-Men | 2
Legacy
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This chapter examines J. Edgar Hoover's ascent to leadership in the Bureau of Investigation during a time of heightened fears about communism and expanding surveillance technologies. It juxtaposes Hoover's public claims of safeguarding civil liberties with his true motivations amid increasing public anxiety over government spying.
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