Spoiler: Hoover probably didn’t publicly wear a dress.
, an intensive biography about founding FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover. They unpack why we need to look into Hoover’s past in order to fully understand his career.Emily Bazelon: You say that looking at [J. Edgar Hoover] closely over these decades, means also looking at what America was and who Americans were and what we were willing to both tolerate and refused to see. And then, the marrying of the support for and building up of the federal administrative state and conservative power.
But [Hoover’s] born into this government civil service family, which was pretty unusual in the 19th century, because there weren’t that many people working for the federal government. And he comes of age through the DC public schools. He tended to narrate his own childhood as being this kind of idyllic experience.
And so, that was a very powerful moment for me, to see those ideological forces shaping him. And then it turned out he took a lot of the first generation of FBI officials, both out of George Washington University and specifically out of this fraternity, Kappa Alpha.Right. I mean, it helps make sense of his deep and abiding suspicion of racial minorities, in particular Black people, that he kind of came up in that stew. He also is someone whose sexual life involved secret keeping.
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