Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
- ISBN-10
- 022662482X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226624822
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-05-25
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Christopher M. Elias
Description
Introduction -- The topography of modernity -- The professional bureaucrat in the public eye -- Populist masculinity in the American heartland -- The power broker as a young man -- Scandal as a political art -- Under the Klieg lights -- Epilogue : the long life of surveillance state masculinity.
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