G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
"A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a ground-breaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. 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 administrativ...
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