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Gossip men : J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the politics of insinuation /

The legacies of Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover and 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 twentieth-century US politics, a paradigm he christens "security state masculin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elias, Christopher M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Hoover, J. Edgar > (John Edgar), > 1895-1972.
McCarthy, Joseph, > 1908-1957.
Cohn, Roy M.
Politics and culture > United States.
Gossip > United States > History > 20th century.
Gossip > Political aspects > United States.
Masculinity > United States > History > 20th century.
Masculinity > Political aspects > United States.
United States > Biography.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / General.

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