54 min

"LBJ thought he could use Hoover as a political tool" A conversation with Bev Gage about J. Edgar Hoover With the Bark Off: Conversations on the American Presidency

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Beverly Gage, author of the acclaimed new biography, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, talks about the larger-than-life director of the FBI who made the bureau a fixture of American power and, in many ways, his own personal fiefdom.

Beverly Gage, author of the acclaimed new biography, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, talks about the larger-than-life director of the FBI who made the bureau a fixture of American power and, in many ways, his own personal fiefdom.

54 min

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