Author: Curt Gentry File Type: epub The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right Hoovers FBI was an American gestapo.*Newsweek*Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentrys masterful portrait of Americas top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost fifty years, Hoover held virtually unchecked public power, manipulating every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blackmail files and used illegal wiretaps and hidden microphones to destroy anyone who opposed him. The book reveals how Hoover helped create McCarthyism, blackmailed the Kennedy brothers, and influenced the Supreme Court how he retarded the civil rights movement and forged connections with mobsters and what part he played in the investigations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. A New York Times bestseller. This massive new study promises to be the most extensive and controversial yet. . . . A chilling look at the darker side of American politics.Library Journal 32 pages of photographsFrom Publishers WeeklyDetail, depth, and sheer vitrol mark this portrait of the former FBI director, which was a nine-week PW bestseller and a BOMC main selection in cloth. br 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalSince his death in 1972, there has been an increasing fascination with Hoover and the immense power he wielded as director of the FBI. Although there have been two recent major biographies--Athan G. Theohariss The Boss ( LJ 6188) and Richard G. Powerss Secrecy and Power ( LJ 2187)--this massive new study promises to be the most extensive and controversial yet. Gentry, who coauthored Helter Skelter ( LJ 111574), has based his account of Hoover on more than 300 interviews and on access to previously classified FBI documents. Beginning with a behind-the-scenes description of Hoovers death and the search for his secret files that is novelistic in technique, Gentry paints a portrait of Hoover as the indispensable man, with many provocative revelations about his political dealings. This is a chilling look at the darker side of American politics, especially concerning Hoovers enemies list and his relentless investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.s personal life. The books lively readability is balanced by lengthy footnotes and by an extensive list of source notes and interviews, and it will be in demand in both academic and public libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 51591 see also From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover , reviewed in this issue, p. 125.--Ed.br - Thomas A. Karel, Franklin & Marshall Coll. Lib., Lancaster, Pa.br 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Author: Longus File Type: epub This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must face pirates, rivals and the confusion of their own feelings to find true love.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Author: Anthony F. D'Elia File Type: pdf In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, damning a living man to an afterlife of torment. What had Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts, done to merit this fate? Anthony DElia shows how the recovery of classical literature and art during the Italian Renaissance led to a revival of paganism. **Review Ideas mattered materially in the world of Sigismondo Malatesta, and its the sharp clash of ideas that forms the fascinating heart of Pagan Virtue in a Christian World. (Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly 2016-03-05) Well-crafted and thoughtfully written, Pagan Virtue in a Christian World is by far the most comprehensive treatment we possess of the humanistic literature produced in Rimini under Sigismondo Malatesta. This is an important contribution to Renaissance studies, one that will considerably enrich our current understanding of the cultural dynamics that characterized Italian humanism in its courtly setting. (Gary Ianziti, University of Queensland) This is an elegantly designed, splendidly composed, and immensely learned work on Renaissance civilization, centered on, but not limited by, the heroic career of one of its notorious antiheroes. Not many authors can combine high scholarship with dramatic narrative, but DElia does. (Margaret King, Brooklyn College) Anthony F. DElias Pagan Virtue in a Christian World is an intricately argued reconciliation of Malatestas divided nature. An image of Malatesta for our times, it examines the creation of the original Malatesta legend. (Dominic Green History Today 2016-11-01) About the Author Anthony F. DElia is Professor of History at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario.