Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation Christoper M. Elias. Univ. of Chicago, $35 (288p) ISBN 978-0-226-62482-2 ...

St. Olaf College History and American Studies Professor Christopher Elias argued that J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn relied on hyperbole and gossip to manipulate an American public ...

J Edgar Hoover, Cardinal Cooke, an American Legion plaque, and a photograph of Al Cohn are among the other items on display. Below the pictures is a small flowered couch.

So, there was a biography that came out in the early 1990s that had a description of Hoover at a kind of group sex event at the Plaza, with Roy Cohn, who was another great villain of American ...

And Cohn himself had been mentored by J. Edgar Hoover, no slouch in that brand of dirty pool smear politics. ... Roy Cohn certainly wasn’t stupid, so I can’t imagine he thought, ...

Roy Cohn was born in New York City in 1927, the year Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs for the Yankees. ... That led J. Edgar Hoover, then the director of the FBI, ...

Theoharis also doubts that Hoover was gay, much less a transvestite who attended an "orgy" Rosenstiel claimed she witnessed at the Plaza Hotel in New York, hosted by Roy Cohn, top aide to the ...

Robert Coover’s “The Public Burning” was met with bafflement and awe when it appeared in 1977. Reality has finally caught up to his masterpiece. By Alexander Nazaryan The film, now available ...

In 1964, during a phone call with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about setting up the new FBI office in Mississippi, President Lyndon B. Johnson broached the idea of really doing something about the ...