"J Edgar Hoover - the man and his secrets" by Curt Gentry, a disturbing account of the life and times of the man who was the power behind the presidential throne of the USA for nigh on 50 years. He had secret files on just about anyone and everyone, and used them whenever he wished, or leaked selected contents to his chosen friends in the media. No person in any form of high office, presidential candidate, or even president was safe - when Roosevelt died and was succeeded by Harry Trueman, Hoover immediately sent for his 250 files on the new President! Anyone who dared to cross him was doomed by him and his FBI, and he was the guiding hand behind Senator McCarthy and the infamous hearings which wrecked many a life or career. Many of his most secret files were shredded by his secretary of fifty years within hours of his death. How much of his legacy lingers on is hard to say, but it is a frightening account of a country which claims to be the "land of the free," and many of whose events affected matters that we on this board all lived through in our early years.