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A Study in American Agitation: J. Edgar Hoover's Symbolic Construction of the Communist Menace
dc.contributor.author | Gotham, Kevin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-19T18:38:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-19T18:38:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992-04-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 16, Number 2 (SPRING, 1992), pp. 57-70 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5084 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5084 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study is a content analysis of J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit, a major non-fiction bestseller published in 1958. By using the theoretical insights of the Frankfurt School, Hoover's anti-communist treatise can be thematically analyzedas a specific type of propaganda dissemination: agitation. This study will isolate and explain five agiuuional themes employed to symbolically construct the Communist Menace: 1. The False Religion; 2. The Apocalyptic End; 3. The Dupes; 4. The Communist Conspiracy; and 5. Trust the FBI. By probing beneath the manifest content of Master;) an effort is made to decipher the latent content and discover the implicit mechanisms used to influence public thought. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Department of Sociology, University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright (c) Social Thought and Research. For rights questions please contact Editor, Department of Sociology, Social Thought and Research, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045. | |
dc.title | A Study in American Agitation: J. Edgar Hoover's Symbolic Construction of the Communist Menace | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17161/STR.1808.5084 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |