Wikipedia Shortly thereafter “Pretty Boy ... Universal Images Group via Getty Images “It was the greatest triumph of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to date,” Oller writes of “Machine Gun ...

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919. It ended during the presidency of his friend ...

(RNS)— In 'The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover,' Stanford professor Lerone Martin details how the longtime FBI director shaped the belief in America as a Christian nation. (RNS) — Lerone Martin’s ...

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. In her masterful, 732-page biography of Hoover, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, the Yale historian ...

No federal bureaucrat played a bigger role in 20th-century law enforcement than J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), who served as the head of the FBI and its predecessor agency for half a century.

Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI chief, has said he wants to dismantle the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the agency’s concrete fortress headquarters in Washington, and disperse the 7,000 ...

In the mid-1950s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most admired Americans, right up there with Ike, Walt Disney, and Billy Graham. The top G-man was at the peak of his popularity.

Yale University professor Beverly Gage talked about the two images that the public often holds regarding long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's life and career. This talk was part of the ...

During The Crown’s six-season run, the hit show about Queen Elizabeth II and her family never shied from taking on the more controversial—and perhaps embellished—scenes from her life.

Dr. Gage is a historian at Yale and the author of “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.” In recent years, as I finished writing a biography of J. Edgar Hoover ...

G-MAN: J. EDGAR HOOVER AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Beverly Gage, Viking, 837 pages, $40 On Oct. 7, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson’s longtime aide Walter Jenkins walked into the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: J. Edgar Hoover was a Director for the Federal Bureau of Investigation with 11 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1963 Compiled Program.