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Beverly Gage’s biography ‘G-Man’ examines J. Edgar Hoover’s controversial tenure at the FBI

Por: The Boston Globe Life November 18, 2022

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In the mid-1950s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most admired Americans, right up there with Ike, Walt Disney, and Billy Graham. The top G-man was at the peak of his popularity. But by the mid-1960s, in the midst of antiwar and civil rights protests, he had become one of our most divisive public figures, reviled by civil liberties liberals while still esteemed by law-and-order conservatives.From the outset, Yale historian Beverly... + full article



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