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‘It was everything’

Eliot Weinberger: The Republican Convention, 11 August 2016

... from prison early. But he was, because some politician wanted to show their “compassion”.’ Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal known from the Afghanistan invasion for his (possibly exaggerated) heroism, host of a television talk show produced by the conspiracist Glenn Beck and a former ‘special guest’ on Duck Dynasty, fired up the hall when he suddenly ...

Something on Everyone

Deborah Friedell: Hoover’s Secrets, 27 July 2023

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century 
by Beverly Gage.
Simon and Schuster, 837 pp., £35, March, 978 0 85720 105 8
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... cases involving Black leaders and activists’, starting at the beginning of his career with Marcus Garvey, the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Hoover finally got him on mail fraud charges), and ending with the Black Panthers. But there was no one he worked harder or more ingeniously to destroy than Martin Luther ...

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