Robert Unger delves into the FBI's own files regarding the 1933 massacre of four lawmen in Kansas City's Union Station parking lot. Unger reveals that the case that catapulted J. Edgar Hoover's FBI into national prominence was far less the Bureau's proud birth than its original sin. Tearing away 64 years of secrets and legends, Unger gives us the real story.
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Robert Unger delves into the FBI's own files regarding the 1933 massacre of four lawmen in Kansas City's Union Station parking lot. Unger reveals that the case that catapulted J. Edgar Hoover's FBI into national prominence was far less the Bureau's proud birth than its original sin. Tearing away 64 years of secrets and legends, Unger gives us the real story.
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Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by author. Autographed copy, signed by Robert Unger on the front end paper. No inscription. Author's name only. Book is downgraded because of a long stain running along the top edge of the white underside of the dust... Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 256 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Kansas City. 1997. Andrews & McMeel. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0836227735. 256 pages. hardcover. keywords: FBI History America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-In a hot June morning in 1933, 4 lawmen were brutally murdered in the parking lot of Kansas City's Union Station, among them an agent from the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation. Within hours, the bureaus' young director swore his men to vengeance. Out of this carnage of the massacre would grow the modern FBI and its legendary leader, J. Edgar Hoover. The author claims that Hoover & the FBI framed ‘Pretty Boy' Floyd and Adam Richetti for the murders of 4 lawmen in Kansas City in 1933. He goes on to suggest that Hoover used the publicity generated by this case to build the Bureau into the powerful institution it later became. inventory #24516.
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