Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and LA Times Book Prize
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian Magazine
Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Books of 2022”
The New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2022”
Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today’s conservative political landscape.
