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Documents America's first domestic war on terror, a period in the early 1920s during which J. Edgar Hoover assembled a database of thousands of suspected communists and was enlisted by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to execute a series of home and office raids through which more than ten thousand Americans were arrested for treason. Reprint.
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On June 2, 1919, bombs exploded simultaneously in nine American cities, and the nation suddenly found itself facing a new threat-radical terrorism. Then-Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer vowed a crackdown to be led by his youngest assistant, J. Edgar Hoover. Under Palmer’s wing, Hoover helped execute a series of brutal nationwide raids-bursting into homes without warrants, arresting over ten thousand Americans-and assembled secret files on thousands of political enemies. Despite public backlash against the abuses, these were the first steps in Hoover’s remarkable rise to power. Young J. Edgar is the ?compelling” (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY) and ?fast-paced” (KIRKUS REVIEWS) story of Hoover’s early career-one that reaches to the heart of our modern debate over personal freedom in a time of war and fear.
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