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John Rodden - Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals - 9780252081941 - V9780252081941
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Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals

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Description for Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals 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

In a rich and stimulating epilogue, Rodden shows how his Cold War research possesses thought-provoking implications for us today, in our post-9/11 era of debates about data collection, privacy invasion, personal dignity, and the use and abuse of government and corporate power.

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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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99-1

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.  

Reviews for Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
"Rodden's text provides more than just a historical case study: it offers a challenge to its readers to be wary of increased surveillance and intrusion into the private lives of US citizens, especially in an era dominated by 'far-reaching, digitized tentacles of both government and private industry.'"
H-Net   "Almost forty-give years since death terminated the reign of FBI director/dictator ... Read more

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