Marvel and/or Nero Wolfe fans may be interested in this. Or US history buffs.

[gryphonrhi]

Or if, like me, you just like to boggle over oddities of history.

Back story: I'm reading a book published in '64 called The FBI Nobody Knows, by Fred J Cook. (Yes. The book that set off the Wolfe novel The Doorbell Rang. It's real and oh, yeah, Hoover must have blown a gasket over it.)  And on p. 239 it's discussing Hoover in the '40s and the

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[irishkate]

Grin!

meanwhile the book sounds interesting

[gryphonrhi]

The book is sometimes horrifying, because 50 years later, parts of it are still accurate. And sometimes, I look at it and go, "And then Hoover had to defend himself against the charges by doing what the author pointed out he hadn't been doing."

[irishkate]

I can't imagine any book about that topic being...comforting...