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Police --- Government executives --- Hoover, John Edgar, - 1895-1972

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"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"--

Politics and culture --- Gossip --- Gossip --- Masculinity --- Masculinity --- Hoover, John Edgar, - 1895-1972 --- McCarthy, Joseph, - 1908-1957 --- Cohn, Roy M. --- United States --- United States

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"Takes us back to the time of the Watergate scandal to shed light on how it is possible that the FBI can be tasked with investigating the president it serves"--

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