[Rarebooks] FS: J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit INSCRIBED to Barry Goldwater

[Charles Agvent]

One of many fine items from our recent catalog--WINTER MISCELLANY 
2010--with 56 select items, all new arrivals.  See it on our home page:

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HOOVER, J. Edgar. MASTERS OF DECEIT Inscribed to Barry Goldwater. New 
York: Henry Holt and Company, (1958). First Edition. A message of fear 
of Communism INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the longtime director of the FBI on 
the front endpaper "To/Hon. Barry Goldwater/With warm personal 
regards/J. Edgar Hoover" and dated 13 February 1958." Appointed director 
of the Bureau of Investigation--predecessor to the FBI--in 1924, he was 
instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 after the publicity garnered 
from the captures of such notorious criminals as John Dillinger, Machine 
Gun Kelly, and the like. Hoover remained director until his death in 
1972 and is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient 
crime-fighting agency and with instituting a number of modern 
innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file 
and forensic laboratories. Late in life, and after his death, Hoover 
became an increasingly controversial figure. His critics have accused 
him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI, using the organization to 
harass political dissenters and activists, amassing secret files on 
political leaders, and collecting evidence using illegal methods. 
Goldwater, a five-term senator from Arizona, lost the race for president 
to Johnson in 1964. Known as "Mr. Conservative," he is the politician 
most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American 
conservative political movement in the 1960s and also had a substantial 
impact on the libertarian movement. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. 
         $500.00

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