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Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
Matthew Cecil
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Description for Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
Hardcover. The complete history of the covert and sophisticated efforts of Hoover's FBI to promote a positive image and to immunize the FBI from legitimate criticisms of its abusive practices; offers a primer for our time highlighting the dangers to civil liberties and democratic values posed by secretive and effectively unaccountable intelligence agencies." Num Pages: 365 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JPV; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 703.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader - and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick - running roughshod over those same American ideals - is the story this book tells in full for the first time.
From Hoover’s first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the Bureau’s eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s, FBI officials laboured mightily ... Read more
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader - and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick - running roughshod over those same American ideals - is the story this book tells in full for the first time.
From Hoover’s first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the Bureau’s eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s, FBI officials laboured mightily ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
699g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619467
SKU
V9780700619467
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99-18
About Matthew Cecil
Matthew Cecil is associate professor and director of the Elliott School of Communication, Wichita State University. He has worked as a newspaper editor, a political and legislative reporter, and a press secretary for a gubernatorial campaign.
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