J Edgar Hoover
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J. Edgar Hoover's American Century May 19, 2023
Most of what people think they know about J. Edgar Hoover is nonsense, typically associated with his wearing a dress, high heels, and a boa.During his nearly half-century as FBI director, he was hailed as the chief defender of Americanism against sub...
Federal Foes January 04, 2023
Beverly Gage’s new biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, perceptively situates him within “the rise of the administrative state” that “came of age alongside Hoover,” in the author’s words.1 Indeed, partly because of the fbi’s own self-understanding, a...
How J. Edgar Hoover Went From Hero to Villain November 30, 2022
Before his abuses of power were exposed, he was celebrated as a scourge of Nazis, Communists, and subversives....
J. Edgar Hoover Was as Complex as the Country He Served November 25, 2022
J. Edgar Hoover, who served as director of the F.B.I. for an astonishing 48 years, has long been remembered as the stuff of liberal nightmares: a redbaiter, a wiretapper, a sower of discord through covert manipulations....
