Quote by David Grann Download Open image ““At Hoover’s request, Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes,”” — David Grann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock pot of… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Hoover’s attention to the case had waxed and waned over the years, but he had become so agitated about the growing criticism he was… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.” — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
I was working with Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' We were about to make an entrance together - I was Hoover, he was… — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
“You right,” Hawk said. “Couldn’t happen. Be like J. Edgar Hoover running around in a dress.” “Exactly,” I said. “Impossible.” — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Bryant wanted to be outside digging up corpses and chasing (as much as his bad leg would allow) unscrupulous but fiendishly brilliant villains through… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors, they say, and there was no one alive who would come forward to dispute Hoover’s fabricated story. Never… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“White and his cowboy hat loomed over the diminutive Hoover, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character. — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“There was a hickey on the side of my neck the size of a quarter. I looked like I had argued with a Hoover… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
“Think of all the different ways that stories get told. I’m working with the James Brown people on a movie that will end up… — Ahmir Questlove Thompson Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
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