<div>A New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s revealing, &ldquo;important&rdquo; biography of the longtime FBI director (The Philadelphia Inquirer). No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers interviewed more than eight hundred witnesses and pored through thousands of documents to get at the truth about the man who headed the FBI for fifty years, persecuted political enemies, blackmailed politicians, and lived his own surprising secret life. Ultimately, Summers paints a portrait of a fatally flawed individual who should never have held such power, and for so long.</div>

Official and Confidential

<div>Updated with recent evidence on JFK&rsquo;s assassination: &ldquo;The closest we have to that literary chimera, a definitive work on the events in Dallas&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). &ldquo;He was holding out his hand . . . He looked puzzled . . . Then he slumped in my lap . . . I kept bending over him saying, &lsquo;Jack, Jack, can you hear me? I love you, Jack . . .&rsquo; The seat was full of blood and red roses . . . .&rdquo; &mdash;Jacqueline Kennedy, recalling the fatal moment in Dallas Fifty years on, most Americans still feel they have not been told the truth about President Kennedy&rsquo;s death. Chief Justice Warren, who chaired the first inquiry, said &ldquo;some things&rdquo; that &ldquo;involve security&rdquo; might not be released in our lifetime. Millions of pages of assassination records were finally made public in the late 1990s. Yet the CIA is withholding more than a thousand documents under &ldquo;national security&rdquo;&mdash;until 2017. Why? Why hold these records back if&mdash;as we were told half a century ago&mdash;Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone assassin? Anthony Summers set out to write a reliable account of the murder mystery that haunts America.Not in Your Lifetime, in this fresh edition, is one of the finest books written on the assassination. </div>

Not in Your Lifetime

<div>A tour de force account of seduction, power, and betrayal in the biggest political sex scandal of its age The Profumo Affair rocked the British establishment like no scandal before or since. The Tory war minister, John Profumo, had taken up with a teenager named Christine Keeler, who was also sleeping with a Soviet intelligence agent. The ensuing inquiry revealed a hidden underworld in which men of the ruling classes and politicians cavorted with prostitutes at orgies. The revelations shook the British government and sent shock waves all the way to the Kennedy White House. The man at the center of the storm was Dr. Stephen Ward. Ward was a successful doctor to the rich and powerful, a talented artist who drew portraits of many of his famous patients and fixed up prominent men with young women. He was also a pawn, ruthlessly exploited by the intelligence agencies. When the Profumo Affair threatened the government, Ward became a scapegoat, hounded to death&mdash;and perhaps murdered. For the first time, The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward reveals the names that could not be exposed and the truths that could not be told until now.</div>

The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward

<div>New York Times Bestseller: The definitive biography based on over six hundred interviews with people who knew Marilyn Monroe both professionally and intimately. Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous men from Joe DiMaggio to Arthur Miller to John F. Kennedy. But her tragic death at a young age, under suspicious circumstances, left behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people, laying bare the truths&mdash;sometimes funny, often sad&mdash;about this brilliant, troubled woman. The first to gain access to the files of Monroe&rsquo;s last psychiatrist, Summers uses the documents to explain her tangled psyche and her dangerous addiction to medications. He establishes, after years of mere rumor, that President Kennedy and his brother Robert were both intimately involved with Monroe in life&mdash;and in covering up the circumstances of her death. Written by a Pulitzer Prize nominee who has authored works on JFK, J. Edgar Hoover, and the 9/11 attacks, this investigation of an iconic star&rsquo;s brief life and early death is &ldquo;remarkable. . . . The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages&rdquo; (The New York Times). </div>

Goddess

<div>Marilyn, JFK, Hoover: Three provocative works of investigative journalism by a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Anthony Summers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his acclaimed account of the 9/11 attacks, The Eleventh Day. In these three expos&eacute;s, Summers uncovers the truth behind the myth-making, cover-ups, and lies surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the career of infamous FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Goddess: In this &ldquo;remarkable&rdquo; New York Times&ndash;bestselling biography of the iconic star&rsquo;s brief life and tragic end, Summers establishes, after years of rumors, that President Kennedy and his brother Robert were both intimately involved with Monroe in life&mdash;and in covering up the circumstances of her death (The New York Times). &ldquo;Convincing evidence of a crude but effective cover-up which was designed to protect Robert Kennedy.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times Literary Supplement Not in Your Lifetime: Updated fifty years after the JFK assassination, Summers&rsquo;s extensively researched account is comprehensive and candid, shedding new light on Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby in particular, providing &ldquo;the closest we have to that literary chimera, a definitive work on the events in Dallas&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). &ldquo;Fresh and important . . . We rush on through [Summers&rsquo;s] narrative as if we were reading an artful thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;An awesome work, with the power of a plea as from Zola for justice.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times Official and Confidential: This &ldquo;enthralling&rdquo; New York Times&ndash;bestselling portrait of J. Edgar Hoover plumbs the depths of a man who possessed&mdash;and abused&mdash;enormous power as the director of the FBI for fifty years, persecuting political enemies, blackmailing politicians, and living his own surprising secret life, haunted by paranoia (Paul Theroux). &ldquo;An important book that should give us all pause, especially policy makers.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer &ldquo;Summers&rsquo; book is not just a history of a single hero-sized hypocrite, it is a history of a vast national delusion.&rdquo; &mdash;The Spectator</div>

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Books By Anthony Summers (5 Books)

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Goddess

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