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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 Show More
by Beverly Gage.
Simon and Schuster, 837 pp., £35, March,
“... interesting that was discovered was filed away, and would sometimes be leveraged for bigger fish, at least in biographies less careful than Gage’s. Gentry quotes Sullivan:The moment [Hoover] would get something on a senator he’d send one of the errand boys up and advise the senator that we’re in the course of an investigation and we by chance ... ”
