In his history of the FBI as a secret intelligence organization, Tim Weiner didn’t need to take up the question of whether J. Edgar Hoover was gay. But he did: on his very first page he condemns what he calls the “caricature” of Hoover as “a tyrant in a tutu, a cross-dressing crank.” When a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist takes this line of argument, whatever you think of it, it’s news.. . .
. . . continued at the L.A. Review of Books HERE