The FBI Story. A Report to the People. With a Foreword by J. Edgar Hoover.
New York: Random House, [1956] 1966. [Espionage/Intelligence/Security] Ninth printing. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 368; [2]. Publisher's cloth hardcovers, top edge red, in typographic dust-wrapper. Gift inscription in ink, jacket clipped with minor wear. Shows well. Don Whitehead was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and war correspondent, covering the Eighth Army in North Africa, the Allied invasion of Sicily, D-Day landings and the Liberation of Paris. He also covered the Korean War in 1950. His book, The FBI Story was adapted into a 1959 film, starring James Stewart. In 1956, the book was reviewed by novelist Ian Fleming for The Sunday Times, under the title 'The Great Policeman'; 'Easter Egg' hunters will notice a carefully-placed copy of the book in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No. From the comprehensive Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with pencilled ownership. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Item #74852
Gilbert C58, D7, p.536, 545.
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