Anthony Summers

"A capo dell''FBI per quasi cinquant''anni dal 1924 al 1972 Hoover ha lavorato per ben otto presidenti. Oggi il mito del grande eroe americano sembra ormai del tutto sommerso dalla figura di una sorta di genio del male, corruttore e corrotto, ricattatore, omosessuale, dedito al vizio. Summers, in cinque anni di lavoro, ha intervistato centinaia di testimoni, scavato tra montagne di documenti, per far emergere questo ritratto impressionante nel pubblico e nel privato. Le sue trame hanno condizionato tutta la politica americana, occultando e manipolando informazioni, sospinto probabilmente anche da turbe che oggi possiamo definire di ordine sessuale e psichico. metamorfosi panteistica dell''uomo nel paesaggio e nel mito. "

With access to thousands of recently released official documents, fresh interviews and the perspective that can come only from a decade of research and reflection, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the most complete and definitive account of 9/11 we may ever read. For millions in the West, September 11, 2001 is the darkest day in living memory. The terrible attacks in America sent a shock around the world that reverberate to this day. Ten years on, Osama bin Laden is dead, but the questions remain. What exactly happened on 9/11? Could it have been prevented? How and why did so much acrimony and bad information arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what remains unresolved? "The Eleventh Day" investigates the response of President Bush and the U.S. military, and the failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. It documents the inaccurate official stories told afterwards, considers the contentions of the '9/11 Truth' movement, analyses the motives behind the onslaught, exposes the blunders by U.S. intelligence before the attacks, and notes how the Bush administration tried groundlessly to link Iraq to 9/11. And the book confronts the question the 9/11 Commission failed to answer: were the terrorists backed by powerful figures in other foreign nations? Riveting, revelatory and unforgettable, "The Eleventh Day" is the essential one-volume work on a pivotal episode in our history.

Puritain conservateur, acharné de la chasse aux « Rouges », raciste décomplexé, antisémite, J.E. Hoover sera le patron du FBI de 1924 à 1972. La montée de la criminalité pendant la crise de 29 fera s

Más de dos décadas después de su dimisión de la presidencia de Estados Unidos, Richard Nixon sigue siendo un personaje absolutamente fascinante. De hecho, Estados Unidos y Europa siguen obsesionados con la necesidad de entender a una del las figuras politicas mas infames del siglo XX. En este libro, Anthony Summers ofrece un examen sin precedentes de un presidente cuya personalidad abrazaba tanto la brillantez politica como el afan de venganza criminal. A partir de mas de un millar de entrevistas y despues de cinco años de investigacion, Summers traza la carrera de Nixon desde su juventud en California, pasando por sus controvertidos periodos en el Congreso y la vicepresidencia, hasta sus turbulentos dias en el Despacho Oval. El patron queemerge es el de un hombre dominado por una absoluta adiccion a las intrigas y al poder, un personaje cuya subversion de la democracia durante el Watergate fue, en realidad, la simple culminacion de años de cinicas manipulaciones del sistema politico. Los documentos que Summers saca aqui a la luz revelan hechos sobre el papel de Nixon en la conspiracion para derrocar a Fidel Castro y en el intento de sabotaje de los dialogos de paz en Vietnam; su aceptacion sin escrupulos de dinero por parte de fuentes poco fiables; sus problemas con el alcohol y su aficion a la automedicacion; su inestabilidad mental y emocional, de la que habla en exclusiva el medico que intento ayudarle; la verdad sobre su mejor amigo, Bebe Rebozo, y su tormentoso matrimonio con Pat.La arrogancia del poder destruira para siempre la imagen que Nixon quiso dejar como legado y presentara en su lugar un crudo retrato de un hombre cuyos tormentos personales llegaron a tener un impacto terrible sobre cincuenta años de la historia de Estados Unidos y del mundo entero.

The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic stars death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold TapesGets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever willGuardianMore than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. Her life was a contrast of public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark questions - about her relations with President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world. Marilyns tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than almost any other. GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet exciting fact.Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever willGuardianThe fullest factual account of Monroes life and death were likely to getEvening StandardThe definitive story of the legendIrish TimesA remarkable performance...The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pagesNew York Times

For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. Hoover was lauded when he died as an American hero. Anthony Summers controversial bestseller, Official & Confidential, The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoovers lifetime.Hoover used his intimate knowledge of the John F. Kennedys sex life to ensure that Lyndon B. Johnson became Vice President, and suppressed evidence about J.F.Ks assassination. Hoover himself, meanwhile, was a closet homosexual, which allegedly led to him being blackmailed by the Mafia.This fascinating book reveals that even Hoovers death, on the eve of Watergate, was clouded with mystery. Witnesses have indicated that, in the panic over the secrets he was holding over President Nixon, an operation was mounted to break into his house - possibly even to murder him.

The controversial New York Timesbestselling biography of Americas most infamous president written by a master of investigative political reporting. Anthony Summerss towering biography of Richard Nixon reveals a tormented figure whose criminal behavior did not begin with Watergate. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews and five years of research, Summers traces Nixons entire career, revealing a man driven by addiction to power and intrigue. His subversion of democracy during Watergate was the culmination of years of cynical political manipulation. Evidence suggests the former president had problems with alcohol and prescription drugs, was mentally unstable, and was abusive to his wife, Pat. Summers discloses previously unrevealed facts about Nixons role in the plots against Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, his sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks in 1968, and his acceptance of funds from dubious sources. The Arrogance of Power shows how the actions of one tormented man influenced 50 years of American history, in ways still reverberating today. Summers has done an enormous service. . . . The inescapable conclusion, well body-guarded by meticulous research and footnotes, is that in the Nixon era the United States was in essence a rogue state. It had a ruthless, paranoid and unstable leader who did not hesitate to break the laws of his own country.Christopher Hitchens, The New York Times Book Review A superbly researched and documented accountthe last word on this dark and devious man.Paul Theroux

It might not be in your lifetime, said the Chief Justice of the United States when asked whether the files on the assassination of President Kennedy would be made public. If the President was killed by a lone gunman, as the first official enquiry claimed, why can we still not see all relevant records?Fifty years on and the murder of the century remains unsolved. Drawing on thirty years of investigation, Anthony Summers examines the case in compelling, forensic detail. He analyses the evidence for Oswalds guilt, the Mafia connection, and the links to Cuba and reveals, for the first time, a plausible admission of involvement. This updated edition of Not in Your Lifetime is the most definitive account of one of the most intractable mystery mysteries of our time.

Durante cuarenta y ocho años -desde 1924 a 1971- John Edgar Hoover fue director del todopoderoso FBI. En los Estados Unidos, los partidos políticos se alternaban en el poder, se sucedían los presidentes de diferente signo, pero Hoover permanecia. Era posiblemente uno de los hombres mas odiados y temidos en todo el espectro politico americano, pero de siete presidentes que hubo durante su largo mandato al frente de los servicios de inteligencia, ninguno oso destituirlo. Cuando murio, en 1972, fue enterrado con honores de gran estadista, aunque se rumorea durante años que tenia contactos con la Mafia, que habia acosado a Martin Luther King y posiblemente estuviera detras de su asesinato, y que sus famosos dossiers clasificados como Oficial y confidencial eran instrumentos de chantaje apenas disimulados.Anthony Summers, tras varios años de exhaustiva investigacion, y entrevistas a personajes clave en la vida de J.E. Hoover, revela los oscuros secretos de la vida de uno de los mas poderosos personajes del siglo XX: un homosexual tapado que se travestia en fiestas privadas mientras chantajeaba a politicos menos habiles que el en ocultar sus inclinaciones y sus pecadillos; el policia mas poderoso del pais mas poderoso, infatigable martillo de comunistas, de lideres de movimientos civiles y de objetores de la guerra de Vietnam, que sin embargo era extorsionado por los grandes jefes de la Mafia; un perseguidor de la corrupcion que no dudaba en aceptar regalos de poderosos millonarios, y utilizaba al FBI como si fuera su finca privada...

The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century. The Tory War Minister, John Profumo, had been sleeping with the teenage Christine Keeler, while at the same time she had been sleeping with a Russian spy. The ensuing investigation revealed a secret world where titled men and prostitutes mixed, of orgies and S&M parties. The revelations rocked the British establishment to its core and lead to the resignation of the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. And seemingly at the centre of it all was one man, Dr Stephen Ward.Stephen Ward was many things to many people. He was a successful osteopath to an establishment list of clients. He was a part-time artist who had drawn portraits of members of the Royal Family. To some he was a provider of popsies to rich people; a man who knews lots of pretty girls of flexible morals. And finally, when the scandal came crashing down on the government, he was a scapegoat, put on trial and, ultimately, hounded to his death.The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward is the definitive investigation into the Profumo scandal and the life and mysterious death of the man at its heart.

Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of the September 11, 2001 attacks in America reverberate to this day. Though Osama Bin Laden has been killed, questions remain. What exactly happened? Could 9/11 have been prevented? How and why did so much acrimony and misinformation arise from the ashes of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a quiet field in Pennsylvania? And what has yet to be revealed?The Eleventh Day, written with access to thousands of recently released official documents, is updated for this edition and reports on a development which the former chairman of Congress 9/11 probe describes as the most important in years.

In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, Im going to be the best singer in the world. Two years on, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a century on Bono defined him as the Big Bang of popular music. To hell with the calendar, a music critic wrote before his death in 1998, The day Frank Sinatra dies, the twentieth century is over.There have been many books about Sinatra, but the last comprehensive biography was Kitty Kellys HIS WAY, published in 1986. it has taken renowned biographer Anthony Summers years to research this new biography, which promises to be the definitive story of a musical and film career spanning six decades. In this massively documented book, meticulous investigation is coupled with sensitivity to examine every aspect of Sinatras life, public and private, from his obscure beginnings in an immigrant neighborhood in Jersey City to his twilight years as a living legend in Palm Springs. It tells the human story of an American icon who was irresistible to women and who was plagued throughout his life by scandal and hints of links with the Mafia. In this book, Summers finally uncovers the whole truth.

A primeira biografia totalmente documentada e amplamente pesquisada, do nascimento à morte – a vida completa de Frank Sinatra.Sinatra conta a história de um ícone americano cuja influência na música

LOOKINGFORMADELEINE is the must-read account that the online haters tried to silence. Its award-winning authors, Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, are featured in the NETFLIX series The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann."EXPLOSIVE"Sun"COMPELLING"DailyTelegraphThe book:· Identifies the blunders made during the police search for Madeleine· Draws on confidential police sources· Analyses the thousands of pages of the Portuguese police dossier · Pinpoints the misreading of forensic evidence that - for a time - turned Kate and Gerry McCann into formal suspects· Follows the clues indicating that the McCanns apartment was watched, that the apartment had been visited by a phoney "charity collector"· Reports, in frightening detail, on the many earlier sex assaults on British children in the areaTwelve years on, as Scotland Yard and Portuguese investigators continue their work, the Yard is focusing on a specific suspect. A senior officer told the authors: "The case is solvable."What readers have said about LOOKING FOR MADELEINE:"Lucidly written, superbly researched...non-judgemental...An excellent, fascinating update.""A wonderful book. I was engrossed from beginning to end.""Extensive research...plausible and sensible conclusions..."