Title: Pathetically biased
Product review: I suppose it's too much to ask that any book dealing with J. Edgar Hoover could even pretend to be objective (and still get published), but one might hope for a little effort on the part of the author in disguising the personal defamation. The author's first attack on Hoover related to his investigation of several individuals during WWI for seditious, anti-war comments and his getting them sent to jail (in violation of their 1st Amendment rights). Well, this was Hoover ENFORCING THE LAW! The Espionage Act pushed through by Woodrow Wilson and a Democratic Congress made it a crime to publish or state anything derogatory of the current administration. Also, as a mid-level FBI officer, Hoover couldn't put anyone in jail anyway, they had to be tried in court and convicted by a jury. Yet the author doesn't even hint that this was anything but Hoover's own personal crusade. Based on that (within the first 10 pages), how could one take anything else the author says seriously?
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