J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography

    (Hill and Wang, 2008)
™ and © 2008 Rick Geary

From the Publisher:

Crime-fighter, commie-buster, and moral crusader, J. Edgar Hoover certainly saw himself as the FBI’s own action hero. In the hands of the gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, his life becomes a timely and pointed guide to eight presidents—from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon—and everything from Prohibition to Cold War espionage. From a nascent FBI’s headline-grabbing pursuit of John Dillinger and George “Machine Gun” Kelly in the 1930s to Hoover’s increasingly paranoid post-World War II authorizing of illegal wiretaps, blackmail, and circumvention of Supreme Court decisions, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography provides a special window into the life of an outsized American and a bird’s eye view on the twentieth century.

An award-winning cartoonist and illustrator, Rick Geary has worked for Marvel Entertainment Group, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Heavy Metal, and has contributed to National Lampoon and The New York Times Book Review.
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