Gossip Men

Gossip Men

J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

Elias, Christopher M.

The University of Chicago Press

05/2021

288

Dura

Inglês

9780226624822

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction

Chapter One: The Topography of Modernity

Chapter Two: The Professional Bureaucrat in the Public Eye

Chapter Three: Populist Masculinity in the American Heartland

Chapter Four: The Power Broker as a Young Man

Chapter Five: Scandal as Political Art

Chapter Six: Under the Klieg Lights

Epilogue: The Long Life of Surveillance State Masculinity
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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