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j. edgar hoover and the great american inquisitions
this scathing documentary chronicles the career of j. edgar hoover director of the fbi for more than 40 years . his lifelong obsession with communists that began with the red scare of the early 1920s manifested itself into a mission hell bent on eradicating anyone suspected of engaging in anti american activities be they actors politicians or protest groups . a masterful propagandist hoover took every opportunity given him to create a public atmosphere of outsider paranoia and his fears ran deep . by the time of his death in 1972 hoovers fbi had compiled thousands of individual secret files and completed countless illegal operations . br br presented in black & white .