"Based on extensive research of primary sources and relentless FOIA requests, Charles provides the first comprehensive history of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's systematic (some would say obsessive) targeting, investigation, and harassment of homosexuals for the half century that…
"Based on extensive research of primary sources and relentless FOIA requests, Charles provides the first comprehensive history of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's systematic (some would say obsessive) targeting, investigation, and harassment of homosexuals for the half century that…
"At the FBI, the "Sex Deviates" program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious "Sex Deviates" file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977-1978 these files were destroyed--and it would seem that fo…
"In this manuscript, Douglas M. Charles reveals how FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover catered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's political interests. Between 1939 and 1945, the Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored the political activities of President Roosevelt's anti-interven…