Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J. Edgar Hoover took over the FBI, then known as the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 when he was 29 years old. At first, agents ...

If that ideological turnabout seems ironic, Beverly Gage’s magnificent biography of Hoover, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, shows how the institution has always been ...

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919. It ended during the presidency of his friend Richard ...