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

Tue, May 23

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Zoom, Beverly Gage

Hear from Beverly Gage over Zoom speak about J. Edgar Hoover as she 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.

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

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May 23, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

Zoom, Beverly Gage

About this session

We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people--many of them communists or racial minorities or both-- did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.   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…

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