the defensive and many times winning them over to his side. He was many times known for chastising his fellow students with his morality that was most likely established through his hours of reading the Bible in his younger years. In the years to come he would use these skills and morals to chastise politicians, radical groups, and criminals of all types. These morals eventually led Edgar to become what everyone else considered him to be-the man of the house. This was to replace his ailing father who was suffering from what the family called a nervous breakdown. Barely considered an adult Hoover was now to take charge of his household with all of its responsibilities. After high school Hoover started working as a file clerk for the Library of Congress while at the same time taking law classes at George Washington University. Here the classes were arranged in the manner of a case-study method where one had to memorize specific court cases to learn the law. It was said to succeed in this school one needed to have respect for the law, not necessarily for abiding the law, but for the establishment of the law itself . Hoover agreed with this theory then as he did throughout his entire life. We see this later during Hoover's Directorship of the FBI as he toils to keep radicals from tampering with or adulterating the established law as he saw it, but many times utilizes illegal techniques to accomplish this task. It was around the time of Hoover's birth that the nation found itself in the middle of an industrial boom and in turn having to deal with these growing pains. Along with these industrial growths came an increase in control by the federal government. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act had been established along with provisions to prevent unpopular behavior such as the distribution of "obscene" material. Such laws were enforced, if at all, by the Justice Department's use of personnel from the Treasury Department or private detective ag...
