Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse The claim by Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky that he had compromising dirt on Hoover may have been a macho bluff.Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Novel is identified here as “a controversial figure.” How so? Shimon’s claims are secondhand. It’s a mountain-no, an avalanche-of evidence, even if there are some doubts regarding the testimonials. Yes, it’s all here: Hoover pal Luisa Stuart recalling Hoover’s right-hand man, Clyde Tolson, asking Hoover to dance with him at the Cotton Club retired police inspector Joe Shimon’s account of Hoover being arrested for sex with young men in New Orleans Gordon Novel, an apparent confidant of no less than the CIA’s top Cold War spy, James Angleton, stating that he saw photos of Hoover and Tolson engaged in oral sex, and, most memorably, Susan Rosenstiel, wife of mob-linked businessman and close Hoover friend Lewis Rosenstiel, telling of when she saw Hoover dressed in drag in a Plaza Hotel suite. If even half of the accounts in William Cran and Stephanie Tepper’s report are true-and there is no reason to think this is a rogue’s gallery of liars-then the image of a Hoover dedicated to wiping out corruption and evil everywhere is one of the great myths of American history.Ĭran and Tepper incorporate the homework of several scholars and biographers into “Secret File,” but it is Anthony Summers and his new book on Hoover, “Official and Confidential,” who provides the stuff of fresh newspaper headlines.
Edgar Hoover” (at 9 tonight on KCET-TV Channel 28 and KPBS-TV Channel 15 8:30 on KVCR-TV Channel 24) shows how the man who embodied the Federal Bureau of Investigation as its director from 1924 until his death in 1972 led a life of bald hypocrisy and mendacity. In a case of spectacularly ironic retribution, “Frontline’s” investigation “The Secret File on J.