History Quote by David Grann

Hoover was a globalist and a technologist, and he understood America's rising position in the world. He believed that America could extend its power…

— Margaret Hoover

“Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through a shrinkage…

— Richard Hofstadter

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his…

— Clint Eastwood

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start…

— Dustin Lance Black

There's something really specific about being a Hoover and the pejorative term that was multigenerationally tethered to economic hard times, misery and antipathy for…

— Margaret Hoover

“What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in…

— Richard Hofstadter

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big,…

— Clint Eastwood

“Roosevelt did an about-face and adopted Hoover’s blueprint for government involvement in the economy—then juiced it on steroids.”

— Brion T. McClanahan

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to…

— Terence Winter

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of…

— Clint Eastwood

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

— Jill Lepore

“FDR is the canonized hero of American progressivism. Subsequent Democratic presidents, from Lyndon Johnson to Obama, have all sought to expand the power of…

— Dinesh D'Souza