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Gabfest Reads: Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Nov 19, 2022
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Emily Bazelon talks with author Beverly Gage about her new book, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, a detailed account of the life of the first FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover. They discuss Hoover’s hostile relationship with Martin Luther King Jr., why he should have quit at the end of the 1950s, and how Hoover’s childhood shaped his reign [MOU1] as director.
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Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
[MOU1]“tenure”? Maybe I’m overthinking this.
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Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
[MOU1]“tenure”? Maybe I’m overthinking this.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Nov 19, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
The Political Gabfest: The All Criminal Justice Edition: Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon with Vesla Weaver and James Forman, both of Yale University. This week: The deaths, at the hands of police, of Mike Brown and Eric Garner. Also, a discussion of On the Run, by sociologist Alice Goffman. by Political Gabfest