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Beverly Gage

Beverly Gage

Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century American history at Yale. She is the author of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century and The Day Wall Street Exploded. She writes frequently for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times magazine and the New Yorker, among other publications.

Stories from this author

J. Edgar Hoover (second from left) stands behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the president signs a bill in 1934.

How World War II Helped Forge the Modern FBI

Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover consolidated immense power—and created the beginnings of the surveillance state

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Just What the Doctor Ordered

During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine