G-Man Av Beverly Gage

<B>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023<BR/> Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography</B><BR/><B>Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy</B><BR/><B>Winner of the American History Book Prize </B><BR/><B>Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography</B><BR/><BR/> When he became director of the FBI in 1924, <B>J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform</B>.<BR/><BR/> He <B>transformed</B> a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He <B>believed</B> 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 – <B>did not deserve to be included in that American project.</B><BR/> <BR/> In her nuanced and definitive portrait,<B> Beverly Gage charts Hoover’s rise to power,</B> as he