#91: The Spymaster Who Created Modern American Espionage, Part II

William Donovan's final battlefield action of WWI is to countermand an order he received to attack - an order that would needlessly cost more lives than the Irish Regiment has already lost. Not only does he live to defend this action, but he is eventually awarded the Medal of Honor and the commander who issued the order is relieved. After the war, he returns to Buffalo and his law practice but when he become US Attorney General in Buffalo and Western New York, he makes many enemies enforcing prohibition laws. He is all but run out of town, but lands on his feet when his legal mentor is appointed Attorney General in President Calvin Coolidge's cabinet and Donovan is asked to come to Washington to join the Justice Department... and that is where he runs afoul of a young lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover. 

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