He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.
1993
1938
2009
2002
1999
1920
1957
1919
2000
1989
2014
—
1985
2018
