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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,
“... of Washington, claimed he’d grown up hearing that Hoover ‘came from a family that passed’. Beverly Gage writes in her new biography that it’s possible some of Hoover’s ancestors were Black – they had lived in places with large Black populations, and some of his relatives had owned slaves – but concludes that the Hoovers were probably ... ”
