STEPHEN M. UNDERHILL is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Marshall University. He served as the lead reference person for declassified FBI and Department of Justice textual records at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland, from 2007 to 2012.

“Stephen M. Underhill’s book is a brilliant investigation into the ways J. Edgar Hoover co-opted the rhetorical themes and techniques of twentieth-centuryAmerican liberals and progressives to fortify a virtual American police state. If the past is preface, read it as a warning.”—NED O’GORMAN, author of The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Life and Times of J. Edgar Hoover, 1895–1932 Chapter 2. The War on Crime, 1933–1938 Chapter 3. Fighting the Fifth Column, 1939–1945 Chapter 4. The Masquerade and the Menace, 1946–1953 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

STEPHEN M. UNDERHILL is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Marshall University. He served as the lead reference person for declassified FBI and Department of Justice textual records at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland, from 2007 to 2012.

“Stephen M. Underhill’s book is a brilliant investigation into the ways J. Edgar Hoover co-opted the rhetorical themes and techniques of twentieth-centuryAmerican liberals and progressives to fortify a virtual American police state. If the past is preface, read it as a warning.”—NED O’GORMAN, author of The Iconoclastic Imagination: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America from the Kennedy Assassination to September 11

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Life and Times of J. Edgar Hoover, 1895–1932 Chapter 2. The War on Crime, 1933–1938 Chapter 3. Fighting the Fifth Column, 1939–1945 Chapter 4. The Masquerade and the Menace, 1946–1953 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index