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Nov 22, 2022 · November 22, 20225:00 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. Carrie Johnson. 4-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. J. Edgar Hoover is seen in his Washington, D.C., office in 1936. A new...
Nov 22, 2022 · November 22, 2022. Five decades after his death, J. Edgar Hoover still haunts the FBI. His nearly 48-year reign as its director, from 1924 to 1972, has come to symbolize the dangers of a...
Nov 14, 2022 · J. Edgar Hoover, Public Enemy No. 1. The F.B.I. director promised to save American democracy from those who would subvert it—while his secret programs subverted it from within. By Margaret...
Nov 19, 2022 · J. Edgar Hoover, who served as director of the F.B.I. for an astonishing 48 years, has long been remembered as the stuff of liberal nightmares: a redbaiter, a wiretapper, a sower of discord...
Aug 21, 2023 · How J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's first and longest director of the FBI, used controversial methods to turn the agency into one of the most efficient investigative forces in the world. James...
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J. Edgar Hoover hid that some witnesses to Malcolm X’s murder were F.B.I. informants. Mr. Hoover, the agency’s longtime director, gave orders that led “multiple witnesses” to conceal their ...
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Mar 9, 2023 · By Susan Gonzalez. March 9, 2023. “ G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” a 2022 biography of the controversial FBI director by Yale historian Beverly Gage, is among three books to win this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the nation’s top honors in the field of American history.
