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‘Hoover saw himself throughout his life as this minister and soldier.’ Photograph: Corbis/Getty Images
One of the earliest photographs of J Edgar Hoover shows him aged 17, standing tall and proud in t
Declassified documents show how Hoover used the FBI to promote White evangelicalism
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Tibetans believe that before Buddhism could take hold in Tibet, the land, seen as coequal with the body of a giant demoness,…
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