The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI

by Stephen M Underhill

The second Red Scare was a charade orchestrated by a tyrant with the express goal of undermining the New Deal--so argues Stephen M. Underhill in this hard-hitting analysis of J. Edgar Hoover's rhetorical agency. Drawing on Classification 94, a vast trove of recently declassified records that documents the longtime FBI director's domestic propaganda campaigns in the mid-twentieth century, Underhill shows that Hoover used the growing power of his office...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863465
• ISBN13: 9781611863468
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"