Beverly Gage is an American academic who is a professor of history and American studiesatYale University. She was the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her 2022 book G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, and also wrote The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror in 2009.[1][2] In 2021, Gage was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, and she was formerly a National Fellow for the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.[3]
Beverly Gage
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Gage speaking at the Naval War College in 2019
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| Title | Member of the National Council on the Humanities |
Gage attended Yale as an undergraduate, graduating in 1994 with a degree in American studies, then earned her PhD in history at Columbia University in 2004.[4]
In September 2021, she announced that she would resign as director of the Grand Strategy program, effective December 2021, citing concerns about academic freedom and a "board of visitors" that was formed to oversee her work.[5] In an interview with The New York Times, she stated,『It’s very difficult to teach effectively or creatively in a situation where you are being second-guessed and undermined and not protected.』On October 1, 2021, the Yale history department issued a statement in support of her.[6]
Her 2022 biography of J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man, received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Biography,[7] the 2023 Bancroft Prize and Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History.[8] It was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.[9]
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