'To learn more about J. Edgar Hoover, and particularly his notable lack of interest in prosecuting the mafia and other organized crime syndicates — even as their power grew in American cities and they became intertwined with local governments, police, labor unions and other institutions — until the Apalachin meeting in the late 1950s for…
'To learn more about J. Edgar Hoover, and particularly his notable lack of interest in prosecuting the mafia and other organized crime syndicates — even as their power grew in American cities and they became intertwined with local governments, police, labor unions and other institutions — until the Apalachin meeting in the late 1950s forced his hand, I’ve picked up “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” by Beverly Gage. A friend recommended it to me as “the biography of J. Edgar Hoover but also the biography of the first 70 years of 20th-century America.”
'The essence of this kind of violent politics is that it happens at the local level, so I’ve also been reading about specific cities, and how their particular flavors of machine politics have sometimes opened up space for crime and corruption to flourish, encouraged state violence, or both.' (NYTimes,The Interpreter, AmandaTaug, 3/3/23) Sorry that I do not have gifting opportunity.
it's said to be a very good book and has been universally well-reviewed (and then some!). but I can't bear the prospect of having to read (or listen to the audiobook of) anything THAT long about THAT guy.
'To learn more about J. Edgar Hoover, and particularly his notable lack of interest in prosecuting the mafia and other organized crime syndicates — even as their power grew in American cities and they became intertwined with local governments, police, labor unions and other institutions — until the Apalachin meeting in the late 1950s forced his hand, I’ve picked up “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” by Beverly Gage. A friend recommended it to me as “the biography of J. Edgar Hoover but also the biography of the first 70 years of 20th-century America.”
'The essence of this kind of violent politics is that it happens at the local level, so I’ve also been reading about specific cities, and how their particular flavors of machine politics have sometimes opened up space for crime and corruption to flourish, encouraged state violence, or both.' (NYTimes,The Interpreter, AmandaTaug, 3/3/23) Sorry that I do not have gifting opportunity.
it's said to be a very good book and has been universally well-reviewed (and then some!). but I can't bear the prospect of having to read (or listen to the audiobook of) anything THAT long about THAT guy.