J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant, ...

G-Man by Yale historian Beverly Gage examines how Hoover held onto power and describes his complicated legacy on racial justice and surveillance. Biography traces public support for J. Edgar Hoover in ...

Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, may test internal guardrails, historian and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Beverly Gage tells Morning Edition. J. Edgar Hoover's biographer weighs in on Trump's ...

J. Edgar Hoover was a complicated man and Clint Eastwood’s bio-pic doesn’t flinch from or skimp on the man’s complexities. But in trying to show the many, sometimes contradictory, sides of the ...

Ed Westwick has been cast in Clint Eastwood's upcoming film J. Edgar. The movie is a biopic on the career and personal life of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI. Westwick, who currently ...

The move prolongs the dispute over the F.B.I.’s headquarters, an aging colossus veiled in netting to keep concrete from falling on passers-by. By Glenn Thrush If the F.B.I. is seen as a tool of ...