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Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
John Rodden
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Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JKSW1; JPFC; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the public relations myth promoted by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. In Of G-Men and Eggheads, Rodden portrays federal agents' hilarious obsession with monitoring that ever-present threat to national security, the American literary intellectual. Drawing on government dossiers and archives, Rodden focuses on the onetime members of a radical political sect of ex-Trotskyists (barely ... Read more
Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the public relations myth promoted by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. In Of G-Men and Eggheads, Rodden portrays federal agents' hilarious obsession with monitoring that ever-present threat to national security, the American literary intellectual. Drawing on government dossiers and archives, Rodden focuses on the onetime members of a radical political sect of ex-Trotskyists (barely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081941
SKU
V9780252081941
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About John Rodden
John Rodden has taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Virginia. He has published four other books on the New York intellectuals.
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