J. Edgar Hoover was an authoritarian son of a bitch. His hatred of the Other in US society was a major factor in his approach to law enforcement in the United States. Despite the myths surrounding the founding of the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) –the agency he essentially created and championed—as an anti-crime force designed More

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