Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Cecil, Matthew.

Title Hoover's FBI and the fourth estate : the campaign to control the press and the Bureau's image / Matthew Cecil.

Publication Info. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2014]
2014

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.232 C324h 2014    ---  Available
Description x, 355 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343) and index.
Contents The FBI's ongoing crisis of legitimacy -- A bureau built for public relations -- Enforcing the Bureau's image of restraint -- Silencing a "useful citizen" -- Investigating critics on the left -- Dividing the press -- Engaging defenders in the press -- Corresponding with friends in the press -- Managing friends in the broadcast media -- Renewing the FBI story in Bureau-authorized books -- Building a television audience.
Subject Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History.
Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States -- History.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
Government and the press -- United States -- History.
Public relations -- United States -- History.
ISBN 9780700619467 (alk. paper)
0700619461 (alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only