Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image

Winner: AEJMC Book Award

Finalist, Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader—and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick—running roughshod over those same American ideals—is the story this book tells in ful...