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Hoover´s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI´s Sex Deviates Program
Douglas M. Charles
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Description for Hoover´s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI´s Sex Deviates Program
Hardback. Fully exposes the extraordinary invasion of US citizens' privacy perpetrated on a historic scale by an institution tasked with protecting American life. What Hoover's War on Gays reveals is the FBI's distinctly unethical, off-the-books long-term targeting of gay men and women and their organisations under cover of "official" rationale. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSK2; JKVF1; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 169 x 38. Weight in Grams: 896.
At the FBI, the Sex Deviates program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious Sex Deviates file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977-1978 these files were destroyed-and it would seem that four decades of the FBI's dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in a remarkable feat of investigative research, synthesis, and scholarly detective work, Douglas M. Charles manages to fill in the yawning blanks in the bureau's history of systematic (some would say obsessive) interest in the lives of gay and ... Read more
At the FBI, the Sex Deviates program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover's notorious Sex Deviates file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977-1978 these files were destroyed-and it would seem that four decades of the FBI's dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in a remarkable feat of investigative research, synthesis, and scholarly detective work, Douglas M. Charles manages to fill in the yawning blanks in the bureau's history of systematic (some would say obsessive) interest in the lives of gay and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
896g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700621194
SKU
V9780700621194
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About Douglas M. Charles
Douglas M. Charles is associate professor of history at Penn State University-Greater Allegheny. He is the author of J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State , 1939-1945 and The FBI's Obscene File: J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's Crusade against Smut (Kansas).
Reviews for Hoover´s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI´s Sex Deviates Program
A significant contribution to the literature on the gay and lesbian movements, on the history of the FBI, and on the political and cultural changes shaping twentieth century US. Athan Theoharis, author of The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History A brilliant and fascinating look at the FBI's decadeslong interest in gays, ... Read more