J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant, middle ...

TWO books published years apart yield important information about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI is the premier domestic ...

While the FBI never launched a formal investigation of Eleanor Roosevelt, FBI references to her comprise one of the largest single files in J. Edgar Hoover's collection. Her affiliation with ...

Emily Maitlis explores the life and legacy of J Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI for almost five decades and turned it into a premier crime-fighting and counterintelligence force. In part two Hoover ...