Richard Gid Powers

Biographic Data

ID553129
NAMERichard Gid Powers
GIVEN NAMESRichard Gid
FAMILY NAMEPowers
SIGNATUREPOWERS R G
AFFILIATIONSCollege of Staten Island
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

    Richard Gid PowersARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    Name the historians whose mastery of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files is definitive and authoritative—Athan Theoharis, David Garrow, and Kenneth O'Reilly come to mind. Matthew Cecil now needs to be included in that list. His history of the J. Edgar Hoover–era FBI's public relations operation is a tour de force of scholarship, organization, and storytelling centered, as good stories must be, on colorful personalities rendered in coheren…

  • Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg

    Richard Gid Powers, Tom WellsARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Journal Article Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg. By Tom Wells. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. xii, 692 pp. $32.50, isbn 0-312-17719-4.) Get access Richard Gid Powers Richard Gid Powers College of Staten Island City University of New YorkStaten Island, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 2, September 2002, Pages 726–727, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism

    M J Heale, Harvey Klehr et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism. By Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh. Chapel Hill, Not without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. By Richard Gid Powers. New York and Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era. By John Earl Haynes. Chicago Get access M. J. Heale M. J. Heale Lancaster University, Lancaster, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…

  • Anticommunism's Two Faces: The Irresponsible Won Out

    Arthur M Schlesinger, Arthur Schlesinger et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1996

  • J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Antidote

    Richard Gid Powers, Athan TheoharisARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article J. Edgar Hoover, Sex, and Crime: An Historical Antidote. By Athan Theoharis. (Chicago: Dee, 1995. 175 pp. $19.95, ISBN 1-56663-071-1.) Get access Richard Gid Powers Richard Gid Powers College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1286, https://doi.org/10.2307…

  • Handbook of Japanese Popular Culture

    William W Kelly, Richard Gid Powers et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1990Cited by: 5

  • Anticommunist Lives

    Open AccessRichard Gid Powers, Athan Theoharis et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1989

  • Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

    Fraser J Harbutt, Fraser Harbutt et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1989

  • The Boss as Bureaucrat

    Samuel Walker, Richard Gid Powers et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1988

  • Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover

    Kenneth O’reilly, Kenneth O'Reilly et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1988

  • G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture

    Charles C Alexander, Richard Gid PowersARTICLEJournal of American History1984

    Journal Article G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. By Richard Gid Powers. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. xix + 356 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $20.00.) Get access Charles C. Alexander Charles C. Alexander Ohio University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 1, June 1984, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org…

  • One G-Man's Family: Popular Entertainment Formulas and J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I

    Open AccessRichard Gid PowersARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1978Cited by: 2

    television's The closed its last case. Inspector Erskine is still chasing crooks before the news or late at night in reruns, but when Quinn Martin taped the final show and turned Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, and William Reynolds loose to grow fat on their residuals, it was the end of one of the most remarkable partnerships in the history of American popular culture. As a government patron of the arts, there have been few rivals to J. Edga…

  • J. Edgar Hoover and the Detective Hero

    Open AccessRichard Gid PowersARTICLEThe Journal of Popular Culture1975Cited by: 1

  • Donald Davidson

    Open AccessRichard Gid Powers, Thomas Daniel Young et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1972