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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