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...later from its leading apostate, the militant separatist Malcolm X. Malcolm's differences with King were unambiguous and raised legitimate questions, not least of which was the right of self-defense. But the man Branch vividly documents as King's most insidious enemy is FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
...Hoover ordered telephone taps that he hoped would tie King to communist conspiracies. Disappointed with the results, the nation's official blackmailer then bugged the Washington hotel room where King was overheard having noisy extramarital sex. "King is a 'tom cat' with obsessive, degenerate sexual urges," gloated Hoover. It is an odd comment coming from a man whose own unconventional private life was one of the FBI's top secrets...
...Hightower, Northeast Regional Commissioner: "The cab driver on the way down here wanted to know if I was going to this. She had a problem with her taxes she wanted to get taken care of, so I got her number and we'll help her out." Imagine J. Edgar Hoover offering to take care of the deli guy's immigration papers...
...immigrated to the U.S. and became a citizen. During the '80s, he taught and worked at the University of California at Berkeley and the Hoover Institute at Stanford...
...Dave Hoover wanted to be a lion tamer ever since he was a kid and saw Clyde Beatty's cheesy jungle movies. George Mendonca went to Rhode Island after the hurricane of '38 and stayed to become a topiary gardener. Ray Mendez, a photographer, had a high school fascination with insects; 20 years later, he learned that there were mammals--naked mole rats--living in colonies like insects, took photos of them, brought them home. Rodney Brooks is an M.I.T. scientist who loved to build things; now he makes robots whose movements are not programmed but follow the machine...