{"product_id":"9781849832854-g-man","title":"G-Man","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJ. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking, multi-award winning biography of FBI director J Edgar Hoover, a controversial colossus who dominated 20th century America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the American History Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 PEN\/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When he became director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater into a modern machine. He stayed in power for decades, and created a personal fiefdom unrivalled in US history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this masterful, multi-award-winning biography, Beverley Gage explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career. In Gage’s portrait, Hoover was a man admired by millions, but was also a formidable public figure who intimidated his enemies, excluded minorities from his great American project and created the foundations of the US far right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e G-Man is a dramatic portrait of one of America’s most influential – and controversial – public figures. It is also an engrossing story of the making of modern America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Revelatory'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Astonishing' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Masterful…This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40980667465825,"sku":"9781849832854","price":23.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31760595.jpg?v=1734596326","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781849832854-g-man","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}