Hoover
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Books
Staffers at The Times on the Books They Enjoyed in 2023
A 1960s crime caper, a biography of the man who created the modern F.B.I., Sinead O’Connor’s memoir: Reporters, writers, editors and bureau chiefs describe their favorite reads of the year.
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Newyork
What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?
There are the novels the literary world acclaims and there are the novels people actually read. Occasionally — perhaps with decreasing frequency — they are one and the same. But apart from momentary blips when best seller and critical darling align ...
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Newyork
Lyndon Johnson Was No Friend of Martin Luther King Jr.
We have long known about the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover’s animus toward the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover built an extensive apparatus of surveillance and disruption designed to destroy King and to drive a wedge between King and ...
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Newyork
To Understand the F.B.I., You Have to Understand J. Edgar Hoover
In recent years, as I finished writing a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the F.B.I. for nearly half a century, liberal-minded friends ...
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Books
In ‘G-Man,’ a J. Edgar Hoover as Complex as the Country He Served
G-MAN: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, by Beverly Gage J. Edgar Hoover, who served as director of the F.B.I. for an ...