The Many Contradictions of Longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover was a man of contradictions. As the Director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, he spearheaded homophobic, racist, and anti-communist policies – which arguably shaped half a century of the United States. But he also had an intimate personal relationship with a man and he believed in the role of government to support social conservatism.
Beverly Gage is the author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Biography. She is a 20th-century American historian at Yale. She also wrote The Day Wall Street Exploded which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
BOOK: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
GUEST: Dr. Beverly Gage
PRODUCER: Ismail Assafi
MUSIC: Silas Bohen and Coleman Hamilton
PRODUCTION: Pod People
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