Gossip men J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation
"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...
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The University of Chicago Press,
2021.
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