When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with 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 - did not deserve to be included in that American project. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Beverly Gage charts Hoover's rise to power, as he used the tools of state to create G-Man - Beverly Gage od authora Beverly Gage a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Beverly Gage |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
864 |
| Rok vydání |
2023 |
| Žánr |
naučná |
| Nakladatelství |
Simon & Schuster |
