The longtime director of the FBI sets out to tell ordinary Americans what communism is and how its party works in the United States: its origins with Marx and Lenin, its appeal, the discipline imposed on members, front organisations, and the underground. It is written as a warning, and its view is that of the Bureau at the height of the Cold War.
Best read as a primary source on 1950s anti-communism and on Hoover himself, not as neutral history. Download the free EPUB.