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 masculini...
| Main Author: | Elias, Christopher M. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2021.
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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.