Essays on J. Edgar Hoover

The McCarthy Era was one that was fraught with conflict. The world had changed in the years after the Second World War, and those changes led to one of the most divisive geopolitical paradigms in modern history. In this time period, the world seemed divided into two groups: those who opposed communism, and those who supported it as an idea. In the United States, the debate raged on, fueled by men like J. Edgar Hoover and Sidney Hook. Documents from both these individuals will be discussed and analyzed in this text, focusing on the different ideological stances held by ...

Introduction

There was a time in American when agents of law enforcement could only watch as a law violator walked away. A time, when the agents were unable to return fire during a gunfight. A period when there existed no means of tracking criminals. A period when a state line acted as a great and impassable wall for law enforcers. A time when one’s criminal exploits made him a legend. These men stood unopposed and took whatever they wished to take on a whim. In the year 1924, a young man started a journey to revolutionalize the modern day American law enforcement took off. This man was J. ...

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"Hoover, J. Edgar", The Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth ed.).Columbia University Press. 2007. Documented in Cox, John Stuart and Theoharis, Athan G. (1988). The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-532-X.and elsewhere. Pub.L. 94-503, 90 Stat. 2427, 28 U.S.C. § 432: In note: Confirmation and Compensation of Director; Term of Service "Obama signs 2-year extension to Mueller's FBI tenure". CNN. July 26, 2011. Retrieved November 10, 2011. Cox, John Stuart and Theoharis, Athan G. (1988). The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-532-X. ...

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Introduction: J Edgar Hoover was the FBI when it was founded in 1938 as he planned it. Conceived it and ruled it for almost 40 years until his death, a rule which defined the way investigations and monitoring were made and which are still actually prevalent to this day. However Hoover also harboured deep prejudices in an ingrained style of conservatism especially his ingrained racism and abhorrence of philandering. A closet homosexual, he was fiercely protective of his own privacy yet he never balked at exposing others and ruthlessly ruined other people’s lives for his own gain as ...

Jonathan Rosenbaum’s essay ‘A Perversion of the Past’ is essentially an analysis of the highly-praised film, Mississippi Burning. However, Rosenbaum writes from the perspective of someone who had personal experience of taking part in the Civil Rights’ struggle of the early 1960s and his thesis is essentially that the film simplifies and distorts what actually happened in the South. At its worst, he claims, the film contains deceitful information (downright lies) about the F. B. I. at the time and, presumably for the sake of box office success, ignores the black victims of the struggle in order to ...