Beverly Gage is an American academic who is a professor of history and

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. She was the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale. She won a

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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.'' In 2021, Gage was nominated to the National Council on the Humanities, and she was formerly a National Fellow for the

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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

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in 2004. 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. 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. Her 2022 biography of

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, ''

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'', received the 2023

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, the 2023

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and

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. It was a finalist for the 2023

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"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

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