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Publication Year:2022
Original Language:English
Author Nationality:United States

G Man

J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

by Beverly Gage

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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 transform...

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