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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

CHAPTER

The Federal Government in the First Half of the 20th Century

Beverly: Washington was kind of a backwater. It was a second-rate city and that was partly because the federal government didn't have anything like the capacity that we think of today. Hoover is just there on the ground floor as the security states being invented, as the intelligence system is being invented,. And really as federal power is going to explode over the course of the 20th century.

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