Cecil, Matthew,

Hoover's FBI and the fourth estate : the campaign to control the press and the Bureau's image / Matthew Cecil. - x, 355 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343) and index.

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.

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Hoover, J. Edgar 1895-1972.
Hoover, J. Edgar 1895-1972.


United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation --History.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.


Journalism--Objectivity--History.--United States
Journalism--Political aspects.
Government and the press--History.--United States
Public relations--History.--United States
Government and the press.
Journalism--Objectivity.
Journalism--Political aspects.
Public relations.


United States.


History.

HV8144.F43 / C426 2014

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