G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century ~ SIGNED FIRST EDITION
por Gage, Beverly
- Novo
- Capa dura
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Novo/New
- ISBN 10
- 0670025372
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025374
- Livreiro
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Daphne, Alabama, United States
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2023 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER! Scarce signed! FIRST EDITION, third printing stated. Book is brand new and never read. Personally hand signed boldly by Ms. Gage directly to to a Publisher's specific book plate in black Sharpie. Bookplate is not affixed but rather laid in. Book does NOT have "Pulitzer Winner" sticker/badge on cover, as it is a true First Edition. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request.
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times Top 100 Notable Books of 2022
"Masterful…This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work"—The Washington Post
"A nuanced portrait in a league with the best of Ron Chernow and David McCullough."—The Wall Street Journal
A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape.
We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people--many of them communists or racial minorities or both-- did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.
Beverly Gage's monumental work explores the full sweep of Hoover's life and career, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Gage shows how Hoover was more than a one-dimensional tyrant and schemer who strong-armed the rest of the country into submission. As FBI director from 1924 through his death in 1972, he was a confidant, counselor, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents, four Republicans and four Democrats. Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson did the most to empower him, yet his closest friend among the eight was fellow anticommunist warrior Richard Nixon. Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him there and supported what he was doing, thus creating the template that the political right has followed to transform its party.
G-Man places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history--not at the fringes, but at the center--and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance, policing, race, ideology, political culture, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century.
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- Livreiro
- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 846
- Título
- G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner): J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century ~ SIGNED FIRST EDITION
- Autor
- Gage, Beverly
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Novo
- Condição de sobrecapa
- New
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0670025372
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025374
- Editorial
- Viking
- Data de publicação
- 2023
- Palavras-chave
- signed; collectible; autographed, FBI, US History, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Washington D.C., Yale, G Man
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