From hoovers first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the bureaus eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s fbi officials labored mightily to control the bureaus imageefforts that put them notsosquarely at the forefront of the emerging field of public relations in the face of any journalistic challenges to the fbis legitimacy and operations hoover was able to create a . Hoovers fbi and the fourth estate the campaign to control the press and the bureaus image english edition ebook cecil matthew amazonde kindle shop. Before the freedom of information act opened up jedgar hoovers massive archive of meticulously indexed files to researchers in the 1970s the fbi enjoyed a unique and lofty position in american society hoover and his agents were heroes to many americans tales of the fbis infallible . From hoovers first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the bureaus eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s fbi officials labored mightily to control the bureaus image efforts that put them not so squarely at the forefront of the emerging field of public relations in the face of any journalistic challenges to the fbis legitimacy and operations hoover was able to create . Hoovers fbi and the fourth estate the campaign to control the press and the bureaus image matthew cecil format book published lawrence kansas university press of kansas 2014 description x 355 pages illustrations portraits 24 cm notes includes bibliographical references and index contents