J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover’s FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal surveillance, while McCarthy and Cohn will forever be associated with the infamous anticommunist smear campaign of the early 1950s, which ...(展开全部)

Drawing from more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Curt Gentry reveals how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost 50 years, Hoover held public power that was virtually unchecked and manipulated every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blac...(展开全部)

Drawing from more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Curt Gentry reveals how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. For almost 50 years, Hoover held public power that was virtually unchecked and manipulated every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard Nixon. He kept extensive blac...(展开全部)

柯特·金特里（Curt Gentry，1931——2014） 美国著名的作家和历史学家。1931年6月13日，柯特·金特里出生于美国科罗拉多州拉马尔市的一个职员家庭。他曾在美国空军服役，退伍后于1957年获得了旧金山州立大学的学士学位。毕业后他选择在加州旧金山定居并全身心地投入写作。 柯特·金特里著有关于美国西部文化历史和其他题材的图书十几种。本书是其写的最后一本书，这是他用了十五年的时间精打细磨的关于前联邦调查局局长的传记巨著，1991年出版后引起了强烈的反响，并获得1992年美国西部笔会中心文学奖*佳虚构类作品。本书还被改编为电影，由著名影星莱昂纳多·迪拉普里奥出演，于2011年11月在美国上映。 2014年7月10日，柯特·金特里在旧金山的一家医院去世，享年83岁。 译者简介： 舒云亮 浙江宁波人，毕业于上海海运学院远洋系，中国作家协会会员。主...(展开全部)

A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of t...(展开全部)

A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today's conservative political landscape. We remember him as a bulldog--squat frame, bulging wide-set eyes, fearsome jowls--but in 1924, when he became director of t...(展开全部)

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is a 1996 book by Robin Dunbar, in which Dunbar argues that language evolved from social grooming. He further suggests that a stage of this evolution was the telling of gossip, an argument supported by the observation that language is adapted for storytelling. The book has been criticised on the grounds that since words are so chea...(展开全部)

Arguing that gossiping is vital to a society, and that there is no such thing as "idle" gossip, this book disputes the assumption that language developed in male-male relationships. The author believes that, on the contrary, language evolved among women, and contends that, although men are just as likely to natter as women, women gossip more about other people, thus strengtheni...(展开全部)

Arguing that gossiping is vital to a society, and that there is no such thing as "idle" gossip, this book disputes the assumption that language developed in male-male relationships. The author believes that, on the contrary, language evolved among women, and contends that, although men are just as likely to natter as women, women gossip more about other people, thus strengtheni...(展开全部)

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language is a 1996 book by Robin Dunbar, in which Dunbar argues that language evolved from social grooming. He further suggests that a stage of this evolution was the telling of gossip, an argument supported by the observation that language is adapted for storytelling. The book has been criticised on the grounds that since words are so chea...(展开全部)