BOOK REVIEW: G-MAN (J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century)

By Beverly Gage. Viking Press, New York. Hardcover, 837 pp with bibliography and index. US$45.

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US’s premier domestic intelligence and security agency, is arguably regarded as the world’s most formidable anti-crime body, the model for similar institutions across the world, particularly in the west despite denunciations of it by former President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly said it is “weaponized”…