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100 1  Gage, Beverly,|eauthor. 
245 10 G-man :|bJ. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American 
       century /|cBeverly Gage. 
263    2211 
264  1 New York :|bViking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
       |c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022  
300    xix, 837 pages, [32] unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (page [737]-815) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction -- part 1. The Federal city (1895-1924). The 
       oldest inhabitants (1800-1895) ; Little Edgar (1895-1905) 
       ; The boy problem (1905-1909) ; Jump high and leap quick 
       (1909-1913) ; Dieu et les dames (1913-1917) ; The great 
       adventure (1917-1918) ; The radical division (1919) ; New 
       elements (1920) ; No. 2 (1924-1924) -- part 2. Building 
       the Bureau (1924-1945). Preface ; The new sleuth (1924-
       1925) ; Kappa Alpha Bureau (1925-1928) ; Depression days 
       (1929-1932) ; Chairman of the Moral Uplift Squad (1927-
       1932) ; Government men (1933) ; The black chamber (1934) ;
       It's FBI now (1934-1935) ; Right-hand man (1935-1936) ; 
       Sob sisters and convict lovers (1935-1938) ; The gathering
       storm (1936-1938) ; Mothers and sons (1938-1939) ; Terror 
       by index card (1939-1940) ; Henry E. Jones (1940-1941) ; 
       Enemy aliens (1941-1942) ; The most exciting achievement 
       yet (1942) ; American dilemmas (1942-1945) -- part 3. 
       Power and politics (1945-1959). Preface -- Central 
       intelligence (1945-1946) ; Under color of law (1941-1948) 
       ; The one bulwark (1941-1946) ; Un-American activities 
       (1946-1947) ; Three-ring circus (1948-1950) ; J. Edgar 
       Hoover, churchman (1948-1950) ; Atomic drama (1949-1951) ;
       Hooverism (1950-1952) ; Inner conflicts (1947-1952) ; A 
       glorious year (1953) ; No sense of decency (1953-1954) ; 
       Massive resistance (1954-1957) ; Master of deceit (1956-
       1959) -- part 4. The war at home (1960-1972). Preface -- 
       New frontiers (1960-1961) ; Top hoodlums (1957-1961) ; The
       Federal Bureau of Integration (1957-1961) ; Patron saint 
       of the far right (1961-1962) ; In friendship (1961-1962) ;
       Decadent thinking (1957-1962) ; The most dangerous negro 
       (1963) ; The President is dead (1963) ; The commission 
       (1963-196464) ; Freedom summer (19) ; All the way with LBJ
       (1964) ; The most notorious liar (1964-1965) ; White hate 
       (1964-1965) ; Hoover knows best (1965-1966) ; Commies in 
       colleges (1965-1967) ; Messiah (1968) ; Nixon's the one 
       (1968-1969) ; The gospel of nihilism (1969-1970) ; The man
       who stayed too long (1970-1971) ; One of the giants (1972)
       -- Epilogue.  
520    "A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from 
       never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking 
       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 
       administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas 
       for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement 
       backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He
       believed in the power of the federal government to do 
       great things for the nation and its citizens. He also 
       believed that certain people--many of them communists or 
       racial minorities or both-- did not deserve to be included
       in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then 
       stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of 
       state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. 
       history. Beverly Gage's monumental work explores the full 
       sweep of Hoover's life and career, from his birth in 1895 
       to a modest Washington civil-service family through his 
       death in 1972. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, 
       Gage shows how Hoover was more than a one-dimensional 
       tyrant and schemer who strong-armed the rest of the 
       country into submission. As FBI director from 1924 through
       his death in 1972, he was a confidant, counselor, and 
       adversary to eight U.S. presidents, four Republicans and 
       four Democrats. Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson did 
       the most to empower him, yet his closest friend among the 
       eight was fellow anticommunist warrior Richard Nixon. 
       Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, but he 
       also embodied conservative values ranging from 
       anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and 
       politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered 
       him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in 
       office for so long because many people, from the highest 
       reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him 
       there and supported what he was doing, thus creating the 
       template that the political right has followed to 
       transform its party. G-Man places Hoover back where he 
       once stood in American political history--not at the 
       fringes, but at the center--and uses his story to explain 
       the trajectories of governance, policing, race, ideology, 
       political culture, and federal power as they evolved over 
       the course of the 20th century"--|cProvided by publisher. 
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