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

Name: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Author: Beverly Gage
ISBN: 9781398517523

Beverly Gage

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

Beverly Gage

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the American History Book Prize. When he became director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater into a modern machine. He stayed in power for decades, and created a personal fiefdom unrivalled in US history. In this masterful biography, Beverley Gage explores the full sweep of Hoover's life and career. In Gage's portrait, Hoover was a man admired by millions, but was also a formidable public figure who intimidated his enemies, excluded minorities from his great American project and created the foundations of the US far right. G-Man is a dramatic portrait of one of America's most influential – and controversial – public figures. It is also an engrossing story of the making of modern America.

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