<div><div><b>A True History of Violence (and Crimefighting, Politics, and Power)</b><br> </div><div>In the hands of gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, J. Edgar Hoover's 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 headlinegrabbing tracking down of Dillinger and Machine Gun Kelly in the 1930s to Hoover's increasingly paranoid post-WWII authorizing of illegal wiretaps, blackmail, and circumvention of Supreme Court decisions, <i>J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography </i>provides a special window into the life of an outsized American and a bird'seye view on the twentieth century.</div></div>