G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Author Beverly Gage
SubjectBiography
Publisher Viking Press
Publication date
2022
Pages837
ISBN 9780670025374

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century is a biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover by historian Beverly Gage, first published by Viking Press in 2022. As the first biography of Hoover in 30 years, the 800-page volume uses new sources uncovered by Freedom of Information Act requests.

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Reception

The book received multiple prizes: the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, [1] the 2023 Bancroft Prize, the 2023 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, [2] the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, [3] and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. [4]

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References

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