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Hoover's FBI and the fourth estate : the campaign to control the press and the Bureau's image / Matthew Cecil.
Van Pelt Library HV8144.F43 C426 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cecil, Matthew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
- Hoover, J. Edgar.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History.
- United States.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Journalism--Objectivity--United States--History.
- Journalism.
- Journalism--Political aspects.
- Government and the press--United States--History.
- Government and the press.
- Public relations--United States--History.
- Public relations.
- History.
- Journalism--Objectivity.
- Physical Description:
- x, 355 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700619467
- 0700619461
- OCLC:
- 862053004
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