Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She writes for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker, among other publications.
‘Captivating. Nuanced, incisive, and exhaustive, this is the
definitive portrait of one of 20th-century America’s most
consequential figures’
*Publishers Weekly*
'A monumental work about power, responsibility, and democracy
itself. With deep research, an engaging voice, and penetrating
insights, Beverly Gage has crafted a portrait of a man and a
country in all its complexity and contradiction'
*Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of American Lion:
Andrew Jackson in the White House*
‘Masterful . . . an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument
to the power of biography’
*Washington Post*
'A masterwork of biography that reveals the contradictions of the
American Century through a man who embodied nearly all of them'
*Heather McGhee, author of The Sum of Us: What Racism costs
everyone and how we can prosper together*
'An incomparable portrait of one of the most influential and
reviled figures in American history. In stunning detail . . .
this extraordinary biography raises critical questions about
the scope of police authority, the contours of citizenship, and the
limits of democracy that strongly resonate'
*Elizabeth Hinton, author of America on Fire: The Untold History of
Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s*
'Rigorously researched, vividly written, and, most
remarkably, fair. It will long remain the definitive
account'
*John Lewis Gaddis, author of George F. Kennan: An American
Life*
'Hoover, at long last, has met his match. G-Man is
unflinching, incisive, and riveting, part biography, part political
thriller, and much more: an essential new history of
twentieth-century America'
*Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United
States*
'Essential reading for those who care about government power and
constraint—which should be all of us. In clear, accessible writing,
Beverly Gage offers a thorough and fair-minded appraisal of the
twentieth century's most powerful American, one whose legacy and
shadow still hang over Washington. We should know this history, or
be condemned to repeat it'
*James Comey, former director, FBI, and author of A Higher Loyalty:
Truth, Lies, and Leadership*
‘Crisply written, prodigiously researched, and frequently
astonishing’
*New Yorker*
'Revelatory… an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover
who he was, while charging the turbulent currents that eventually
swept him aside'
*New York Times*
'Gage’s penetrating account of Hoover’s career, especially his many
long-eclipsed triumphs, offers a well-timed and sobering
perspective as yet another institution in our fractured country
struggles to maintain trust'
*The Atlantic*
'Gage’s triumph is her deft navigation through Hoover’s ‘deep
state,’ while reminding us of the abuse of power that remains his
enduring legacy'
*The Boston Globe*
'Judicious… make[s] you realise…Hoover’s half-century of immense
influence rested on his mastery of a very American art – the
crafting of his image'
*The Nation*
'Gage has done a service to history with this clear-eyed portrait
of a man who was, for better and for worse, very much an American
of his century'
*The American Scholar*
'A welcome reevaluation of a law enforcement legend'
*Kirkus Reviews*
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