J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant, ...

G-Man by Yale historian Beverly Gage examines how Hoover held onto power and describes his complicated legacy on racial justice and surveillance. Biography traces public support for J. Edgar Hoover in ...

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, may test internal guardrails, historian and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Beverly Gage tells Morning Edition. J. Edgar Hoover's biographer weighs in on Trump's ...

In ‘G-Man,’ a J. Edgar Hoover as Complex as the Country He Served The first major biography of the F.B.I. director in nearly 30 years, the book by Beverly Gage revises our conception of a man often ...