Gossip men, J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation, Christopher M. Elias
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Gossip men, J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation, Christopher M. Elias
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Gossip men
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1191455718
Responsibility statement
Christopher M. Elias
Sub title
J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation
Summary
"The legacies of Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Roy Cohn seem like they might be with us forever. Yet Christopher Elias finds in them startling new connections between gender, sexuality, and national security in 20th-century US politics--a paradigm he christens "security state masculinity." Elias integrates biographies of the trio with a history of gossip magazines and their tactics--such as insinuation, guilt by association, hyperbole, and alarmism, not to mention cynicism, slang, and photographic manipulation--which all three used to consolidate their power. The story of security state masculinity reached its climax in the Army-McCarthy hearings, which were rife with insinuations and coded threats. Using gossip as a lens, Elias shifts our understanding of the development of American political culture"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
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
Target audience
adult
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J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation
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- Biographies
- Masculinity + Political aspects -- United States
- Gossip -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- Gossip + Political aspects -- United States
- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
- Cohn, Roy M
- Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Hoover, J. Edgar, John Edgar, 1895-1972
- Politics and culture -- United States
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- Biographies
- Masculinity + Political aspects -- United States
- Gossip -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- Gossip + Political aspects -- United States
- United States -- Biography
- United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
- Cohn, Roy M
- Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Hoover, J. Edgar, John Edgar, 1895-1972
- Politics and culture -- United States
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