Matthew Cecil: 3 books
Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate
The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader—and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how...
Branding Hoover's FBI
How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Hunting down America’s public enemies was just one of the FBI’s jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the...
The Ballad of Ben and Stella Mae
Great Plains Outlaws Who Became FBI Public Enemies Nos. 1 and 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.64. Two months later they hit a bank in nearby Brookings for $17,593—after waiting two hours for the vault’s time-lock to...