Beverly Gage

American academic

Beverly Gage
Gage speaking at the Naval War College in 2019

Beverly Gage is an American academic who is a professor of history and American studies at Yale 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]

Education and career

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]

References

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Reviews for The Day Wall Street Exploded:
- Remes, Jacob A.C. (July 2013). "The Day Wall Street exploded: a story of America in its first age of terror". Labor History. 54 (3): 352–353. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2013.811798. ISSN 0023-656X. S2CID 153941774. Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- Tsesis, Alexander (February 2011). "Beverly Gage, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror". Law and History Review. 29 (1): 319–320. doi:10.1017/S0738248010001124. ISSN 1939-9022. S2CID 147297019. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- Jensen, Richard Bach (January 2011). "Capitalists, Cronies, and their Nemesis - Beverly Gage. The Day Wall Street Exploded. The Story Of America In Its First Age Of Terrorism". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 10 (1): 125–127. doi:10.1017/S1537781410000095. ISSN 1943-3557. S2CID 162938942. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- Soffer, Jonathan M. (2010). "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror". Business History Review. 84 (2): 393–395. doi:10.1017/S0007680500002762. ISSN 2044-768X. S2CID 153848821. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- Edger, David (2010). "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror (review)". Journal for the Study of Radicalism. 4 (1): 159–161. doi:10.1353/jsr.0.0040. ISSN 1930-1197. S2CID 144292033. Archived from the original on June 3, 2018. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- Traflet, Janice M. (January 18, 2010). "A Review of "The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror"". History: Reviews of New Books. 38 (2): 47–48. doi:10.1080/03612750903462855. ISSN 0361-2759. S2CID 143530255. Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- Pearson, Chad (September 1, 2009). "The day Wall Street exploded: a story of America in its first age of terror". Business History. 51 (5): 795–797. doi:10.1080/00076790903125776. ISSN 0007-6791. S2CID 154520859. Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
^ Bird, Kai (November 9, 2022). "A biography that may change your mind about J. Edgar Hoover". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
^ Gonzalez, Susan (April 30, 2021). "Historian Beverly Gage nominated to National Council on the Humanities". YaleNews. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
^ "Beverly Gage". Department of History. Yale University. Archived from the original on February 24, 2013. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
^ Schuessler, Jennifer (September 30, 2021). "Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
^ "Statement from the Department of History". history.yale.edu. Archived from the original on October 7, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^ Khatib, Joumana; Alter, Alexandra; Harris, Elizabeth A. (May 8, 2023). "Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
^ Schuessler, Jennifer (March 23, 2023). "Hoover Biographer Wins American History Book Prize". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
^ Varno, David (February 1, 2023). "NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved February 3, 2023.

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN
"How to Ensure This Never Happens Again - The election and its aftermath have revealed weaknesses in our democracy. Here’s how we can fix some of them." - The New York Times, January 8, 2021, by Beverly Gage and Emily Bazelon