The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA, 1989
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- Hardcover
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Dust jacket: Light shelf wear. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Grey cloth binding. Foxing to page edges and endpapers, clean text throughout. From the private collection of espionage author Rupert Allason (Nigel West) with his embossed stamp to front free endpaper. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 6 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: xiii, 215.
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- Title
- The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover: Rise and Fall of a Domestic Intelligence State
- Author
- William W. Keller
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691077932
- ISBN 13
- 9780691077932
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 710 grams
- Dimensions
- 6 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm)
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- Law & Law Enforcement
In the super-heated anticommunist politics of the early Cold War period, American liberals turned to the FBI. With the Communist party to the left of them and McCarthyism to the right, liberal leaders saw the Bureau as the only legitimate instrument to define and protect the internal security interests of the state. McCarthyism provided ample proof of the dangers of security by congressional investigation. In response, liberals delegated extensive powers to J. Edgar Hoover--creating a domestic intelligence capacity that circumvented constitutional and legal controls. This balanced account of the link between liberal leaders in the United States and the growth of the FBI will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in the American political climate. William Keller identifies a tension between liberalism and the security of the state that can never be fully resolved, and analyzes the exact mechanisms through which liberals and liberal government came to tolerate and even venerate an authoritarian state presence in their midst.
The author shows how the liberal offensive against domestic communism succeeded both in weakening McCarthyism and in disabling the Communist party in the United States. What was the cost of these successes? Keller's answer assesses the liberal community's contribution to changes in the FBI between 1950 and 1970: its transformation into an independent, unaccountable political police.
Originally published in 1989.
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