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Categoria: Accessori per strumenti musicali

David Gage The Realist Mandolin 1/4", Piezo-ceramic pickup for mandolin, For instruments with normal 2-foot bridge, With 6.3 mm jack socket

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Brand: Beverly Gage
EAN: 9780670025374
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"A nuanced portrait in a league with the best of Ron Chernow and David McCullough\"-The Wall Street Journal \n\n\"Masterful...This book is an enduring, formidable accomplishment, a monument to the power of biography [that] now becomes the definitive work\"-The Washington Post\n\n\"Revelatory...an acknowledgment of the complexities that made Hoover who he was, while charging the turbulent currents that eventually swept him aside.\"-The New York Times\n\n\"[A] crisply written, prodigiously researched, and frequently astonishing new biography\"-The New Yorker\n\nThe New York Times \"TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022\"\n\nThe Atlantic \"Top 10 Books of the Year\"\n\nThe Washington Post \"Top Ten Books of 2022\"\n\nPublishers Weekly * \"Top Ten Books of 2022\"\n\nSmithsonian Magazine \"The Ten Best History Books of 2022\"\n\nA 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.\n\nWe remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of the FBI, he had been the trim, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people--many of them communists or racial minorities or both-- did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there, decade after decade, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history. \n\nBeverly Gage's monumental work explores the full sweep of Hoover's life and career, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972. In her nuanced and definitive portrait, Gage shows how Hoover was more than a one-dimensional tyrant and schemer who strong-armed the rest of the country into submission. As FBI director from 1924 through his death in 1972, he was a confidant, counselor, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents, four Republicans and four Democrats. Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson did the most to empower him, yet his closest friend among the eight was fellow anticommunist warrior Richard Nixon. Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation, but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots, wanted him there and supported what he was doing, thus creating the template that the political right has followed to...

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