Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate : The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
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 secretiv...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Press of Kansas,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.