J edgar hoover a graphic biography book

I might venture that it would be comparatively simple to write any old graphic novel about J. Edgar Hoover (I'm not linking to any of Hoover's own works here, as the man himself was a racist, sexist autocrat); after all, any number of fictional works, both audiovisual and written, have portrayed Hoover in any number of ways, and Hoover himself was a larger-than-life figure, subject to any number of personality traits, not all of them accurate.

What makes renowned cartoonist Rick Geary's J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography such a standout addition to biographies of the titular "character" is that Geary researches his subject thoroughly, and doesn't resort to the cheap, easy canards for which Hoover was infamous (and in which DC Comics/Paradox Press' Big Books Of .

J edgar hoover a graphic biography book review

. ., to which Geary was a regular contributor, had a part).

Indeed, a hallmark of J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography is that, perhaps not unlike the FBI that Hoove