Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation 9780226751528, 9780226624822, 022675152X

J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in go

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Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
9780226751528, 9780226624822, 022675152X

J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in go

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J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in the midcentury United States, wielding national p

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In the super-heated anticommunist politics of the early Cold War period, American liberals turned to the FBI. With the C

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A well-researched biography about the public and private life of J. Edgar Hoover-former FBI director and America's

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"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover?s FBI was an American gestapo."?Ne

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An evaluation of the complex relationship between the Kennedy family and the FBI director traces their shared political

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The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Ch

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The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff—his former assistant, P

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In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies, John Sbardellati examines Hollywood's key role as a cultural, political, and

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J. EDGAR HOOVER & CLYDE TOLSON; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Ch

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