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The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
The LRB Podcast
The Life and Times of Hoover
Beverly Gage's biography is the first major biography of Hoover to be written after release of transcripts called the Nona in the 1990s. There were these inner secret intercepts that very few people in the US knew about Hoover was one. He really wants FBI agents to look like their counterparts in the movies, particularly in the 50s when FBI agents are heroes in the 40s and 30s.
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