The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover

New York: Scribner; Simon and Schuster, 2021. xviii, 302 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who'd just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret 'files' he carefully collected--and that were so feared by politicians and celebrities. Through Letersky's close working relationship with Hoover, and the trust and confidence he gained from Hoover's most loyal senior assistant, Helen Gandy, Paul became one of the few able to enter the Director's secretive--and sometimes perilous--world. Since Ho over's death half a century ago, millions of words have been written about the man and hundreds of hours of TV dramas and A-list Hollywood films produced. But until now, there has been virtually no account from someone who, for a period of years, spent hours with the Director on a daily basis." -Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.