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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By Beverly Gage
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By Beverly Gage
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Now in paperback, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of J Edgar Hoover deemed "Masterful…an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work”by The Washington Post (and everywhere else)

"Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who he was, while charging the turbulent currents that eventually swept him aside."—The New York Times

G-Man is the groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a ...

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