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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

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The Importance of Democracy in the 20th Century

Hoover is interesting in his own right as a representative of the security state and then more broadly, the administrative state. He was this deep ideological conservative on race, on communism, on religion, on law and order. And he sort of put those two pieces together to build, you know, this kind of conservative bastion within the liberal state.

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