Gabfest Reads: Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Emily Bazelon talks with author Beverly Gage about her new book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, a detailed account of the life of the first FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover. They discuss Hoover’s hostile relationship with Martin Luther King Jr., why he should have quit at the end of the 1950s, and how Hoover’s childhood shaped his reign [MOU1] as director. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth [MOU1]“tenure”? Maybe I’m overthinking this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.3	Hello and welcome to GabFest Reads for November 2022.
0:39.3	I am Emily Bazlon, one of the hosts of Slates Political GabFest.
0:45.5	I am here with great excitement with Beverly Gage, who is a professor of 20th Century American
0:52.7	History at Yale.
0:54.3	She is previously the author of the book The Day Wall Street Exploded, which is about
0:58.8	the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1:03.3	And she is currently the author of G-Man, a major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that
1:10.2	draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of this man who
1:17.1	dominated half a century of American history from the 1920s to the 1970s, and that is
1:23.1	going to argue plant the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.
1:27.7	That, thanks so much for joining us.
1:29.7	It's great to be here.
1:31.2	I should also mention that you are a dear friend of mine, and I have been watching the
1:35.0	development of this book with enormous excitement and pleasure for low these many years.
1:39.7	So today's taping is a special joy for me.
1:44.5	So you are writing the first major biography of J. Edgar Hoover in over a quarter century.
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