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Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation de Christopher M. Elias

Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation

Autor Christopher M. Elias
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2022

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Gossip Men transformă o practică socială aparent frivolă — bârfa — într-un instrument de analiză politică și istorică. Christopher M. Elias deschide volumul prin examinarea tehnicilor de insinuare și manipulare vizuală, arătând cum figuri precum J. Edgar Hoover au transformat supravegherea ilegală și șantajul în piloni ai securității naționale. Cartea nu se rezumă la o cronică a mccarthyismului, ci investighează modul în care publicul american a fost pregătit cultural să accepte aceste tactici prin intermediul presei de scandal.

Structura narativă urmărește o progresie logică, de la formarea birocratică a lui Hoover la ascensiunea lui Roy Cohn și prăbușirea publică a lui McCarthy sub luminile reflectoarelor din Senat. Autorul dedică secțiuni importante modului în care 'masculinitatea de stat' a fost construită și protejată prin secretomanie. Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de The Manufacture of Consent de Stephen M. Underhill, adăugând dimensiunea culturală și de gen pe care Underhill o abordează strict prin prisma retoricii politice și a arhivelor declasificate. În timp ce alte studii se concentrează pe mecanismele instituționale, Elias demonstrează cum identitatea personală și temerile legate de sexualitate au modelat politicile de stat. Este un studiu despre modul în care 'insinuarea' a devenit o metodă de guvernare, oferind o nouă înțelegere a culturii politice americane moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226823935
ISBN-10: 0226823938
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 12 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de istoria politică a secolului XX și de mecanismele puterii. Veți câștiga o perspectivă inedită asupra modului în care cultura populară și politica de securitate se întrepătrund. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege originile statului de supraveghere modern și modul în care retorica masculinității a fost folosită ca armă politică în timpul Războiului Rece.

Despre autor

Christopher M. Elias este un istoric specializat în cultura și politica americană a secolului XX. Lucrarea sa de față, publicată de prestigioasa editură University of Chicago Press, reflectă interesul său pentru intersecția dintre gen, sexualitate și instituțiile de putere ale statului. Prin cercetarea sa, Elias aduce la lumină conexiuni anterior neglijate între viața privată a figurilor publice și politicile de securitate națională, consolidându-și poziția de analist atent al evoluției democrației americane sub presiunea supravegherii.

Descriere scurtă

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 surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will forever be associated with the infamous anticommunist smear campaign of the early 1950s, which culminated in McCarthy’s public disgrace during televised Senate hearings. In Gossip Men, Christopher M. Elias takes a probing look at these tarnished figures to reveal a host of startling new connections among gender, sexuality, and national security in twentieth-century American politics. Elias illustrates how these three men solidified their power through the skillful use of deliberately misleading techniques like implication, hyperbole, and photographic manipulation. Just as provocatively, he shows that the American people of the 1950s were particularly primed to accept these coded threats because they were already familiar with such tactics from widely popular gossip magazines.

By using gossip as a lens to examine profound issues of state security and institutional power, Elias thoroughly transforms our understanding of the development of modern American political culture.
 

Notă biografică

Christopher M. Elias is assistant professor of history at the American University in Cairo.

Cuprins

Introduction

Chapter One: The Topography of Modernity

Chapter Two: The Professional Bureaucrat in the Public Eye

Chapter Three: Populist Masculinity in the American Heartland

Chapter Four: The Power Broker as a Young Man

Chapter Five: Scandal as Political Art

Chapter Six: Under the Klieg Lights

Epilogue: The Long Life of Surveillance State Masculinity
 
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“A juicy introduction to three of the most controversial figures in 20th-century American politics. . . . Well-researched and stimulating. . . Elias vividly describes the era’s political battles, tabloid magazines, and dramatic Senate hearings, and persuasively identifies the influence of the 'surveillance state masculinity' embodied by his three subjects on the political rise of Donald Trump.”

“A perceptive, well-informed political and cultural history. . . . Elias makes a stimulating book debut with interwoven biographies of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and lawyer Roy Cohn.”

"Informative, entertaining. . . An important, novel history text."

“This finely crafted book, based on meticulous use of archival records, satisfies on many levels and sheds light on often overlooked history. . . . Elias adeptly details the Lavender Scare of the mid-20th century, and the lasting impact of the use of fabrication and hyperbole.”

“Elias brings fresh detail to how the trio worked together in pursuit of common enemies, and he persuasively argues that McCarthy’s death from alcoholism, at age 47 in 1957, failed to slow the Communist witch hunt he had done so much to foster. He also explores why the cross-dressing rumors about Hoover remain so much a part of his legacy (Elias skillfully skewers the more outlandish tales of Hoover being dressed “like an old flapper” at the Plaza and having the Bible read to him by a young man while another, wearing rubber gloves … well, let’s stop there) and deftly illustrates how the playbook these three men developed came to be used so devilishly by Cohn’s onetime client—the 45th president of the United States. Gossip Men manages the neat trick of portraying three monsters in ways that induce as much pity as fury."

"The writing is crisp and intelligent. . . Elias has written a sociological thesis, dense with information, extensively footnoted, and carefully hewing to the facts."

“This may be a case of scholarship catching up with James Ellroy, whose novel American Tabloid pursued that thesis with all due imaginative embellishment.”

"This engrossing work blends the best of standard political history with superb cultural analysis. . . . Recommended."

“A masterful interpretation of the politics of the early Cold War."

“Gossip Men is a fast-paced and absorbing account of how the men who were most vulnerable to gossip about their sexuality—Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and J. Edgar Hoover—rose to power by mastering the art of masculine performance. As the United States struggles once again with the perils of political manhood, Elias reminds us that alpha-male conservatism was born in a Cold War information economy where gossip, rumor, and innuendo were weapons—but also assets to a career.”

“Gossip Men is a terrific book about a trio of fascinating (if not necessarily terrific) political men. Hoover, McCarthy, and Cohn helped to create the modern security state. As this book shows, they also helped to create—and were created by—fierce public and private contests over masculinity, sexuality, and secrecy. Gossip Men is an important cultural history and a thoroughly engaging read.”

“Gossip Men is compellingly written and fun to read from beginning to end. Elias tracks the emergence of surveillance state masculinity and highlights the role of the gossip industry in its creation and reproduction in a novel way, excellently integrating biography, media studies, and history.”

"For those who want a deeper understanding of the underlying cultural force influencing the work and actions of Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and his aide, Roy Cohn, this fine book is a must-read. In a sophisticated analysis, Christopher M. Elias focuses on changing understandings of manhood and their intersection with the rising power of gossip from the turn of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century."