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Author:
Cecil, Matthew, author.
Title:
Hoover's FBI and the fourth estate : the campaign to control the press and the Bureau's image / Matthew Cecil.
Publisher:
University Press of Kansas,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
x, 355 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Subject:
Hoover, J. Edgar--(John Edgar),--1895-1972.
United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation--History.
Journalism--History.--United States--History.
Journalism--Political aspects.
Government and the press--United States--History.
Public relations--United States--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- The FBI's ongoing crisis of legitimacy -- A Bureau built for public relations -- Enforcing the Bureau's image of restraint -- Silencing a "useful citizen" -- Investigating critics on the left -- Dividing the press -- Engaging defenders in the press -- Corresponding with friends in the press -- Managing friends in the broadcast media -- Renewing the FBI story in Bureau-authorized books -- Building a television audience -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
ISBN:
0700619461 (alk. paper)
9780700619467 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)862053004
LCCN:
2013035680
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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