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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI
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The Legacy of Robert Caro
Robert Caro: I think the popular image of Hoover is that he both got and then maintained his power by kind of strong arming everyone, right? He has the secret files, he's intimidating people. And he certainly did plenty of that, particularly later on when he really was in this incredibly powerful position. But one of the things that I tried to do in the book was to look at all the other sources and techniques of power that he was able to deploy.
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