Branding Hoover's FBI : how the boss's PR men sold the Bureau to America / Matthew Cecil.

" Hunting down America's public enemies was just one of the FBI's jobs. Another--perhaps more vital and certainly more covert--was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cecil, Matthew (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Subjects:
Hoover, J. Edgar > (John Edgar), > 1895-1972.
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation > History.
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Criminal investigation > United States > History.
Public relations > United States > History.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Relations.
Criminal investigation.
Public relations.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Defining a "Hoover Era"
  • 1. From Corrupt to Indispensable
  • 2. The Networker
  • 3. Speaking with One Voice
  • 4. The Editor and the Professor
  • 5. Taming the Octopus
  • 6. The Heir Apparent
  • 7. An Empire in Decline
  • 8. The Fall
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.