Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies

“King, there is only one thing left for you to do....Take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”

Dr. Martin Luther King received this demand in an anonymous letter in 1964. He believed that the letter was telling him to commit suicide.

Who wrote this anonymous letter? Most likely William Sullivan, an assistant director of the FBI.

Who was Sullivan trying to impress in his campaign against King? J. Edgar Hoover.

In this unsparing explo…