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Author Beverly Gage discussed her book, G-Man, and longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s life and work. This event took place at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden celebrated the start of the 2023 National Book Festival alongside several featured authors. This event took place at the Library of Congress.

Columbia University presented the Bancroft history prize to the 2023 winners: authors John Wood Sweet ("The Sewing Girl’s Tale"), Kelly Lytle Hernández (Bad Mexicans), and Beverly Gage (G-Ma…

The 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored literary works in several categories including biography and current events. This event took place during the 2023 Los Angeles Times Fes…

Yale University professor Beverly Gage talked about long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s life and work in her 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. This talk was part of the “Great Live…

Hugh Eakin (Picasso’s War), Beverly Gage (G-Man), Jennifer Homans (Mr. B), and David Maraniss (Path Lit By Lightning) discussed little known aspects of Pablo Picasso, J. Edgar Hoover, George…

Fifty years after the Watergate break-in, historians talked about scandals that have impacted presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. This program was part of Purdue University’s Amer…

Beverly Gage and Thomas Goldstein talked about the 1919 Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, in which the court unanimously ruled that the Espionage Act of 1917 was constitutional, e…

Historians Beverly Gage and John Evers talked about the life and career of 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith, Jr. (1873-1944). Nicknamed the “Happy Warrior,” Al Smith neve…

Three historians presented talks about the concept of the “deep state” in American history and political debate. Topics ranged from recent books about an alleged “deep state,” to President E…

Panelists talk about the history and legacy of the Church Committee, a Senate committee created in 1975 to investigate government intelligence gathering conducted by the CIA, NSA, and FBI in…

Panelists talked about the social changes of the 1970s, including the effects of Watergate and the Vietnam War, as well as the rise in divorce rates and drug incarceration. They spoke at…

Beverly Gage and Jeffrey McClurken were interviewed about the history of detectives and private investigation in the United States. This interview took place at the 2014 meeting of the Organ…

Journalists talked about issues in the 2012 presidential election. Topics included the influence of money, the “likeability” factor of the candidates, women voters, voter identification requ…

A roundtable discussion was held on Beverly Gage’s book The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (Oxford University Press, USA, 2009). The book examines th…