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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,
“... but they turned against him when the day passed like any other. No President Palmer. Warren Harding campaigned on his comparative unexcitability: ‘Too much has been said about Bolshevism in America.’ Hoover still believed that a ‘gang of cut-throat aliens’ wanted to ‘overthrow the government by force’, but he wouldn’t make the mistake of ... ”