Mary, Mary
Christopher Hitchens, 8 April 1993
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
by Anthony Summers.
Gollancz, 576 pp., £18.99, March 1993,0 575 04236 2 Show More
by Anthony Summers.
Gollancz, 576 pp., £18.99, March 1993,
“... This in turn might go some way to explaining his psychopathic, prurient hatred for Martin Luther King. Hoover was compulsive in his taping and bugging of King’s highly virile private life, and in his campaign to use the tapes for blackmail. He officiated in the twisted plan to send ... ”