so use the communications director for jay hoover at that time. when is assigned to the los angeles bureau and he was assigned to hollywood. dealing with the whole anti-communist movement that time. also organized crime, and some incredible stories here about him with nikki cohen and siegel and people like that printed and so it is quite an interesting book i think for my perspective but it is also basically, in the story, this is all in his words and my wife and i joanne, his english professor, we took all of his private journals we compiled open can compile the reduced to five and pages of his own story inn his own words yeta lot of photographs and some like that is really cool us that you can see that if you take my hat off, i put my glasses on, there's quite a a resemblance. >> let's see if we can get closer that 20s right the book about drupal is a tribute. >> twenty could call it a labor of love right. to put it a general audience get out of it. >> there's a lot of well it is a great story about motivational story, to minimize because cleon

. >> how do you explain jay edgar hoover to a contemporary person? >> that is a tough one sometimes. on the one hand, hoover took the bureau from an organization that was really moderate in scandal in the day and very quickly made it into the premier law enforcement t organization in the united states. they had a huge impact on american law enforcement, trying to professionalize it, trying to raise expectations in training and providing services, labs, fingerprint identification. b he created an incredibly important organization for america which has been involvedt in every major historical event in our country's history now. on the other hand, the author shows that we can make some very big mistakes. i usually talk about the way hoover used the investigation to try to destroy the public role, tried to basically damage the character. that is something we should never do. it takes us out of our role as protecting rights and liberties and we have put this into an adversarial role of our very old -- very own people. it has actually become part of the wa