G-Man
J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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Product details:
- Publisher Simon & Schuster UK
- Date of Publication 4 June 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback - Trade paperback (UK)
- ISBN 9781849832854
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages864 pages
- Size 254x153x43 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 2x16pp mono 718
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Short description:
A groundbreaking, multi-award winning biography of FBI director J Edgar Hoover, a controversial colossus who dominated 20th century America.
MoreLong description:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023
Winner of the 2022&&&160;National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy
Winner of the American History Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Longlisted for the CWA&&&160;ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
When he became director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater into a modern machine. He stayed in power for decades, and created a personal fiefdom unrivalled in US history.
In this masterful, multi-award-winning biography, Beverley Gage explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career. In Gage’s portrait, Hoover was a man admired by millions, but was also a formidable public figure who intimidated his enemies, excluded minorities from his great American project and created the foundations of the US far right.
G-Man is a dramatic portrait of one of America’s most influential – and controversial – public figures. It is also an engrossing story of the making of modern America.
&&&39;Revelatory&&&39; New York Times
&&&39;Astonishing&&&39; The New Yorker
&&&39;Masterful…This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work&&&39; The Washington Post
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‘Captivating. Nuanced, incisive, and exhaustive, this is the definitive portrait of one of 20th-century America’s most consequential figures’
