G-Man
Fifty years of J. Edgar Hoover, drawn from files that outlived everyone he tried to ruin.
Beverly Gage spent a decade with newly available files to produce the fullest account yet of J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI for forty-eight years under eight presidents. She takes him seriously as a political actor rather than a caricature, tracing how a Washington bureaucrat built a national security state, wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr., and outlasted everyone who tried to remove him. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2023.
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John McWhorter
biography of J. Edgar Hoover is a page-turner I could barely put down. Hoover was a closeted obsessive, spending a career on an Ahab-like quest to uncover a nonexistent
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