{"id":61007,"date":"2022-11-03T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T17:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=61007"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:25:57","slug":"j-edgar-hoover","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/j-edgar-hoover\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Edgar Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">J. Edgar Hoover<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"50e1bedc2bb8186093a9f525bc0c1035\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRc4da99c70a60e723ea4b93cf656b5933\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRc4da99c70a60e723ea4b93cf656b5933\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRc4da99c70a60e723ea4b93cf656b5933\" data-pagination=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/61007?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRc4da99c70a60e723ea4b93cf656b5933&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;:0}}\" data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/61007?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRc4da99c70a60e723ea4b93cf656b5933\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: February 16, 2023<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The John and Linda Coker Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2023: J. Edgar Hoover\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/800129384?h=88393d7597&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/J.-Edgar-Hoover-199x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/J.-Edgar-Hoover-199x300.jpeg 199w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/11\/J.-Edgar-Hoover.jpeg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><p>We remember J. Edgar Hoover as a bulldog\u2013squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls. But in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he was the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. 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\u2013many of them communists or racial minorities or both\u2013 did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover shaped the FBI with both ideas in mind, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on her new biography, <i>G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century<\/i>, Beverly Gage will explore the full sweep of Hoover\u2019s life and career, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972 at the pinnacle of American power. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Gage places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history\u2013not at the fringes, but at the center\u2013and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance, policing, race, ideology, political culture, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/librarypoint.bibliocommons.com\/list\/share\/137247394_crrladults\/2222529493_crrl_picks_-_great_lives_2023_-_j_edgar_hoover?_gl=1*nwfcnm*_ga*OTQ2NDU1MjAxLjE2NzMzNjA0NDM.*_ga_G99DMMNG39*MTY3Mzc0MzMwNS4yLjEuMTY3Mzc0NTMxOC4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.19805560.1378975210.1673743305-946455201.1673360443\"> Further Reading Resource List<\/a> provided by CRRL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Beverly Gage<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/10\/DSC_4448-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/10\/DSC_4448-150x150.jpg 150w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/10\/DSC_4448-50x50.jpg 50w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2022\/10\/DSC_4448-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n<p>Beverly Gage is professor of 20th-century U.S. history. Her courses focus on American politics, government, and social movements.   <\/p>\n<p>Her book <i>G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century <\/i>, a major new biography of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, will be released by Viking in November 2022. She is the author of <i>The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror<\/i>, which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the 1920 Wall Street bombing. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to her teaching and research, Professor Gage writes for numerous journals and magazines, including The New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Professor Gage received the Sarai Ribicoff Award for teaching excellence in Yale College. In 2015, she was elected to serve as the first chair of Yale\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate. From 2017 to 2021, she served as director of Yale\u2019s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. In 2021, President Joe Biden nominated her to serve on the National Humanities Council, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities. <\/p>\n<p>With Professor Elizabeth Hinton, Professor Gage leads the Workshop in Modern U.S. History, a monthly speaker series for faculty and graduate students to discuss the latest scholarship in 20th-century U.S history. <\/p>\n<p>Professor Gage is a graduate of Yale University (1994, BA, American Studies, magna cum laude) and Columbia University (2004, PhD, History).<br \/>\n\u2003<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1246],"class_list":{"0":"post-61007","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1246","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>J. 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