*Crime-fighter, commie-buster, and moral crusader, J. Edgar Hoover certainly saw himself as the FBI's own action hero. In the hands of the gifted cartoonist Rick Geary, his 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 headline-grabbing pursuit of John Dillinger and George "Machine Gun" Kelly in the 1930's to Hoover's increasingly paranoid post-World War II authorizing of illegal wiretaps, blackmail, and circumvention of Supreme Court decisions, J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography provides a special window into the life of an outsized American and a bird's-eye view on the twentieth century. *Source: Back Cover