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Calling the Police! Calling the G-Men! Calling all Americans to War on the Underworld was the sign-on of the first radio program to portray the agents of the FBI as action heroes. Thus began the remarkable collaboration between the government agency and the merchants of popular culture that was to continue for over forty years. In G-Men Richard Gid Powers explores the cultural forces that permitted the rise and fostered the fall of the nations secret police as national heroes. He examines popular attitudes toward crime from the standpoint of functionalist (Durkheimian) theory and surveys the FBIs image in popular entertainment from the thirties to the recent Todays FBI as a vicarious ritual of national solidarity to explain the popularity of the action detective formula. Soundly based on extensive research and interviews, the book provides an account of how the FBI and the mass entertainment industry were able to transform the bureau and its biggest cases into popular mythology. Hoover and his FBI became national heroes through identification with the action detective hero of crime entertainment. Hoovers popular culture role made him and his bureau sacrosanct symbols of national

Author

Richard Gid Powers

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809310968

Subjects

Military, Social Science, Government_military

Updated

2026-03-24