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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524665003321

Autore

Charles Douglas M

Titolo

J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists : FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 / / Douglas M. Charles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2007

©2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 197 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/160973

Soggetti

Neutrality - United States - History - 20th century

Dissenters - Government policy - United States - History - 20th century

Internal security - United States - History - 20th century

Intelligence service - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - United States

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations 1933-1945 Public opinion

United States History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Background -- Beginnings : war, phony war, and election, 1939-40 -- Intensification : the lend-lease debate, America First, and its allies, December 1940 to summer 1941 -- Focus : from great debate stalemate to wartime probe, mid-1941 to summer 1942 -- Retribution : the FBI and the Victory Program leak, 4 December 1941 to mid-1942 -- Blossoming of the domestic security state, November 1941 to March 1942 -- Conclusion.