G-Men
Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture
Southern Illinois University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. November 1983
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-0-8093-1096-8 (ISBN)
Description
Reviews / Votes
"Powersdoes a first-rate job of chart-ing the F.B.I's image and its image-making before World War II. He has carefully studied the most arcane cultural ephemera (many examples of which appear in illustrations). Powers has made a good start at trac-ing how a secret police force and its mendacious director managed to be-come objects of national adoration."-Joshua B. Freeman, NationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
68
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-1096-8 (9780809310968)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Richard Gid Powers is in the American Studies Department at the College of Staten Island. He has edited six volumes of the Gregg Press series of science fiction and is editor of Popular Culture Interna-tional. In a commentary on Powers' article, "J. Edgar Hoover and the Detective Hero" published in the Washington Post in 1976, Nich-olas von Hoffman wrote: "Powers is the first one to document the man's (Hoover's) invasion of popular mythology bymelding himself and the bureau to fiction."