G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

864 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective medium-paced
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Beverly Gage’s monumental work explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Gage shows how Hoover was mor...

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