{"product_id":"beverly-gage-g-man-2024-paperback","title":"Beverly Gage: G-Man [2024] paperback","description":"\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","brand":"Gage, Beverly","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49198873870675,"sku":"9781849832854","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/gage-beverly-beverly-gage-g-man-2024-paperback-9781849832854-58236593209683.jpg?v=1727670918","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/beverly-gage-g-man-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}