Beverly Gage.
BEVERLY GAGE
g-man: J.edgar hoover and the making of the 20th century (2023)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Biograpy Prize.
Winner of the American History Book Prize.
J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from its founding in 1935 until his death in 1972. It is rumoured that he accumulated incriminating files on each of the eight US Presidents under whom he served.
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Beverly Gage is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale Univrsity. She took her undergraduate degree at Yale, and her PhD at Columbia University.