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Friday essay: Trump’s presidency is being compared to America’s Gilded Age – what was it, and what happened next?

“Trump’s golden age looks an awful lot like a new Gilded Age,” wrote Politico this month, reflecting on the second inauguration of the United States’ president, prominently attended by tech billionaires. The day after that inauguration, historian Beverly Gage “couldn’t stop thinking about the Gilded Age” and its “rapid technological…

The Conversation

Will Kash Patel be the next Hoover?

Trump's FBI pick could be a throwback to America's legendary secret policeman, who ran the FBI for nearly 50 years

Salon

Ling Ma, Beverly Gage among authors honored by book critics

Ling Ma’s sharp and surreal “Bliss Montage” and Beverly Gage’s sweeping biography of the late FBI Director J

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Ling Ma, Isaac Butler and Morgan Talty among National Book Critics Circle Award winners

Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New School in New York City.

Los Angeles Times

Finalists announced for the Lukas Prize Project book awards

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Beverly Gage: The Dark Truth About J. Edgar Hoover's FBI

The first FBI director wasn't all bad (or a cross-dresser). But he and the agency he created regularly flouted constitutional limits on power.

Reason

The Complicated Truth about J. Edgar Hoover

The first FBI director wasn't a cross-dresser, says a new biography, but he was often quick to flout constitutional limits on state power.

Reason

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Biography traces public support for J. Edgar Hoover in most of his 48 years in power

G-Man by Yale historian Beverly Gage examines how Hoover held onto power and describes his complicated legacy on racial justice and surveillance.

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