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US banks
When Wall Street’s co-heads cannot cohabitate
...As president Lyndon Johnson said in declining to remove FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover: “It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”...
February 26, 2024
ReviewBiography and memoir
Chaplin vs America — red scares, scandal and a star in exile
...Eyman introduces you to Chaplin’s friends (Sergei Eisenstein, Winston Churchill, the mobster Mickey Cohen), his foes (J Edgar Hoover, the Nazi party, gossip columnist Hedda Hopper) and his family: an absent...
December 12, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
InterviewVisual Arts
Barbara Kruger: ‘We’re living in an incredible time . . . a car crash of narcissism and voyeurism’
...In the last she filled the entire 110ft height of MoMA’s Marron atrium with stretched and strident type, while in Chicago she spread out all over the museum, even inserting a 1997 statue of J Edgar Hoover...
January 26, 2024
Cannes Film Festival 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon — Martin Scorsese’s epic of oil and murder is haunting
...A pity that it ends not with this but with light-hearted pastiche: a true-crime radio drama (brought to you by J Edgar Hoover and Lucky Strike)....
May 22, 2023
ObituaryRobert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen, double agent, 1944-2023
...He emulated former director J Edgar Hoover by wearing dark suits, but his quick temper and dour manner made him unpopular....
June 10, 2023
Pilita Clark
A boss’s foibles can be a delight
...Nor have I worked for anyone like J Edgar Hoover....
February 19, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewFilm
The Real Charlie Chaplin paints a dazzling picture of a virtuoso
...The explosion of mass entertainment, America from Ellis Island to exile, revolutions, war, the birth of modern celebrity, the press, capitalism, communism, Hitler, J Edgar Hoover....
February 17, 2022
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Joe Biden must confront the left’s cultural over-reach
...It is not as though Biden need turn into J Edgar Hoover to win these voters over....
February 6, 2022
Architecture
From here to modernity: the Palm Springs festival of architecture
...Department-store mogul Edgar J Kaufmann ordered a sublime piece of high-modernist real estate from the Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra as early as 1946....
March 4, 2022
ReviewFiction
Fact and fiction in the execution of Ethel Rosenberg
...In April 1951, in what FBI Director J Edgar Hoover called “the trial of the century”, Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death by...
August 19, 2021
Oscar winners 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah — a bristling story of death and betrayal
...Genuine too was the terror of J. Edgar Hoover. His documented nightmare was what he called a “black messiah”, a leader around whom change would coalesce....
March 10, 2021
ReviewFilm
MLK/FBI — documentary about the civil rights leader has a wider story to tell
...To relate the hounding of King and the animus of J. Edgar Hoover, director Sam Pollard makes the screen an archive-only zone....
January 14, 2021
Ephraim Wernick
Only criminals profit from turf wars in global law enforcement
...There is a quote known to FBI agents that features prominently at the J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington: “The most effective weapon against crime is co-operation.”...
April 19, 2021
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: JK Rowling, Jack Nicholson and the Spanish Inquisition
...What type of animal appears in the title of the first book by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym for J K Rowling) — and the first film for which Jack Nicholson won an Oscar?...
July 24, 2020
Arts
Storytelling enters a new dimension
...You may recognise the voice as belonging to the actor David Tennant and, by the end of his reading of J.M....
February 8, 2021
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Architecture
Beauty and the Brutalists: why the most maligned style in history should be preserved
...Perhaps he was thinking of the J Edgar Hoover Building, the FBI HQ a block away from the Trump International Hotel. The chunky concrete building has always been unpopular....
January 15, 2021
ReviewFilm
Seberg — how a movie star joined the ranks of black radicals
...Bugs and wires are duly installed, and as the star writes cheques to the Black Panthers, dirty tricks start to drive her to breakdown, as they really did in the notorious era of J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro...
January 8, 2020
Trump Russia ties
DoJ watchdog criticises FBI probe into 2016 Trump campaign
...In a lengthy opening statement on Wednesday, Lindsey Graham, the Republican chair of the Senate judiciary committee, compared the problems found by Mr Horowitz to J Edgar Hoover, the long-serving FBI director...
December 11, 2019
FT SeriesTefaf Maastricht art fair 2020
The grant that recognises the value of museums
...The Kaufmann Office has been in store for most of the time since it was presented to the V&A museum by Edgar J....
February 27, 2020
Books
What to read in isolation? Leading FT writers give their tips
...It weaves fact and fiction, as Howard Hughes, J Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys mix with fictional gangsters and FBI agents in the run-up to the Kennedy assassination....
March 20, 2020
ReviewBusiness books
FT business books of the month: June edition
...You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most, by Leonard J Marcus, Eric J McNulty, Joseph M Henderson, Barry C Dorn Do you have what it takes to lead in a crisis?...
June 6, 2019
ObituaryUS intelligence
Andrew Marshall, Pentagon strategist, 1921-2019
...Perhaps only J Edgar Hoover, the infamous head of the FBI, stayed in his job for longer. As a political appointee, Marshall’s job ought to have been up for grabs with each administration....
April 5, 2019
ReviewHistory books
Bluff City by Preston Lauterbach — the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers
...Much of this fear was generated by FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who was so obsessed that he seemed, at times, to prefer chasing red demons to actual organised crime....
February 15, 2019
European prime property
St Tropez smartens beach clubs to boost property market
...The political exiles Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman — described by J Edgar Hoover as, “beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in America” — arrived in Saint Tropez in 1928....
May 23, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
The Man in the High Castle, Amazon Prime — a beautifully detailed alternate history
...William Forsythe appears as the sinister J Edgar Hoover, fishing for dirt on the Oberstgruppenführer and using a complicit gossip columnist to spread it....
September 28, 2018

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