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
ISBN: 9780670025374

by Beverly Gage

National Book · 2022 · Winner

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VikingOctober 25, 2022Biography & Memoir History NonfictionISBN 9780670025374

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2022	Winner

About This Book

Beverly Gage's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of J. Edgar Hoover draws on his personal correspondence and FBI files to argue that Hoover was not only the Bureau's builder but a central figure in American political culture from the 1920s through his death in 1972. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

About the Author

Beverly GageUS

Beverly Gage is an American historian and author, Professor of American History at Yale University, where she was also the founding director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. Her scholarly work focuses on American political history, radicalism, and the history of the state. G-Man: J. Read more →