Word: hooverism
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Although his canvas has expanded, the perspective from which Ellroy views humanity has not. "I discovered politics is crime writ large," says the man who writes off J.F.K.'s assassination as "a business- dispute killing." And he found a new bete noire on the national stage: J. Edgar Hoover, the shadowy FBI director with a basketful of hatreds. "It was the horror of the abuse of power by Hoover and the fact that he went after Martin Luther King--and that King was the one guy he couldn't break--that's what interested me," says Ellroy. In high school...
...secret center of five years of convulsive events. Littell is a lawyer who represents both Howard Hughes and the Mob bosses who own the Las Vegas casinos Hughes wants to buy. A former Jesuit seminarian and FBI agent, Littell also gets regular phone calls from J. Edgar Hoover with instructions to infiltrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. For his part, Bondurant sets up a CIA plan to process poppies into heroin in Vietnam and use the profits to finance an insurrection against Fidel Castro in Cuba. Tedrow observes--"His standard procedure was watch"--and learns...
...names Jimmy Ray and Sirhan Sirhan start popping up, old Ellroy hands will know exactly where, in the year 1968, the headlong plot is aimed. No getting around it: The Cold Six Thousand is an exceedingly nasty piece of work. Yet it is often funny--particularly when the fictional Hoover and Hughes appear-- and traces an unexpectedly moral arc through all its mayhem. Pick it up if you dare; put it down...
...months ago, when FORTUNE 500 execs started calling to see if Jeffrey Hoffman, CEO of Priceline.com's Perfect YardSale website, would talk about why his company's stock had tanked. His speech, "Riding the Dot Com Roller Coaster: The Priceline.com Story," has become a lecture-circuit mainstay. Gary E. Hoover, above, founder of Bookstop superstores and Hoovers.com the Web's largest provider of business information, gives talks about his failed TravelFest superstores. "Now people want to know how to deal with layoffs," he says. Hoover insists he's not just a gloomy Gus; he focuses on how to bounce back...
...What irks us are not the creepy traitors of super-power relations but the sanctimonious hypocrites of everyday life. The people who preach one thing and do the opposite. Who practice the very sins they persecute in others. Elmer Gantry. Jim Bakker. And, speaking of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. There's a special satisfaction when they get their comeuppance...