Book review: The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. By Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart Cox ; The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History. By David H. Bennett ; Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director. By Clarence M. Kelley and James Kirkpatrick Davis ; Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia. By Joseph D. Pistone with Richard Woodley ; Spy vs. Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America. By Ronald Kessler ; The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, The CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow. By David Wise.

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Book review: The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. By Athan G. Theoharis and John Stuart Cox. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press. 1988. Pp. 489 ; The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History. By David H. Bennett. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 1988. Pp. 508 ; Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director. By Clarence M. Kelley and James Kirkpatrick Davis. Kansas City, Kan.: Andrews, McMeel & Parker. 1987. Pp. 326 ; Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia. By Joseph D. Pistone with Richard Woodley. New York, N.Y.: New American Library. 1987. Pp. 373 ; Spy vs. Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America. By Ronald Kessler. New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1988. Pp. 308 ; The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of Edward Lee Howard, The CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country's Secrets and Escaped to Moscow. By David Wise. New York, N.Y.: Random House. Pp. 288. Reviewed by: David J. Garrow.