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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century 2022
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century is a biography written by historian Beverly Gage and published in 2022 by Viking Press. The book, which spans 800 pages, presents the first biography of longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in 30 years. It draws on previously unreleased materials obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
The biography earned several awards including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize, the 2023 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History, the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.
Details
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- ISBN
- 9780670025374
- Pages
- 837
