The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover by Lerone A. Martin review
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, thought the Bureau’s mission was to defeat the godless forces of liberalism, feminism and civil rights.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, thought the Bureau’s mission was to defeat the godless forces of liberalism, feminism and civil rights.
Delusions of grandeur: a ‘psychobiography’ of Woodrow Wilson.
Hawai‘i’s Mauna Kea is among the best places in the world to study the universe, but the construction of a new super telescope is about more than astronomy.
After the death of her husband in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt left the White House and embarked upon a new career as ‘First Lady of the World’.
As America built a vision of its past Oliver Cromwell became both angel and demon.
Bayard Rustin, African American civil rights leader, was also a pacifist, a socialist and a gay rights activist.
The absence of formal government on the American frontier emboldened miners to take powers usually reserved to the state, subjecting criminals to their own brand of vigilante justice.
Puerto Rico’s future might be statehood, independence or more of the status quo, but change is unlikely to be won through voting alone.
What did British officers think of the American Civil War as it was happening?
The CIA has veered far from the purpose for which it was founded. Intended to gather and collate intelligence, it became instead a secretive organisation accountable to no one, which had disastrous consequences for Latin America.