What You Dont Know About the FBI Director Who Targeted MLK
Attention political history buffs: This episode of The New Abnormal podcast takes us back in time, to the \u201950s and \u201960s to be exact, as Beverly Gage, author of \u201cG-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,\u201d tells co-host Andy Levy all about the background of the first-ever FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Andy learns that racist Hoover, infamous for going after Martin Luther King Jr. and committing multiple abuses of power across the board, particularly under the protection of the surveillance program COINTELPRO, didn\u2019t like the Klan and had an interesting relationship with former President Richard Nixon. Author Kal Raustiala also joins the show to tell Andy about his book \u201cThe Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire\u201d and everything we didn\u2019t know about the famous Black United Nations mediator\u2014including the fact that Nixon told him his son was going to be drafted, and the reason he didn\u2019t stop it from happening.
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