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Gossip Men

Christopher M. Elias

J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction

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Chapter One: The Topography of Modernity

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Chapter Two: The Professional Bureaucrat in the Public Eye

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Chapter Three: Populist Masculinity in the American Heartland

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Chapter Four: The Power Broker as a Young Man

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Chapter Five: Scandal as Political Art

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Chapter Six: Under the Klieg Lights

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Epilogue: The Long Life of Surveillance State Masculinity

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Closing Notes

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