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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

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Hoover and the American Establishment

In 1917, 1819, there are lots of people in the United States who are really worried about a revolution. And Hoover comes in at the age of 24 as one of the officials in charge of stopping that. So all of that combined produces what I think we have to understand as on the one hand overblown, but also genuine concern.

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