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1	Early Leader Effects on the Process of Institutionalization Through Cultural Embedding: The Cases of William J. Donovan, Allen W. Dulles, and J. Edgar Hoover Painter, Charles N. 09 May 2002 (has links) This study examines the ways early leaders can influence the process of institutionalization in public organizations. Using Schein's (1983, 1991) model of cultural creation and embedding as a heuristic device, secondary historical sources detailing the creation and development of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the careers of three significant leaders are used to understand the institutionalizing effects of those leaders, how they created those effects, and what happened to those effects over time. The case studies of William Donovan and Allen Dulles at CIA and J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI, provide evidence that these early leaders explicitly and implicitly used several of the cultural creation and embedding mechanisms identified by Schein to entrench their beliefs and predispositions into their organizations. These ensconced attitudes and tendencies seemingly played significant roles in the institutionalization of beliefs, rules, and roles that have developed, persisted, and affected the historical evolution of both CIA and the FBI. / Ph. D. cultural embedding J. Edgar Hoover organizational culture Allen W. Dulles institutionalization William J. Donovan FBI CIA
2	Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form Cannon, Ammie 15 June 2006 (has links) (PDF) Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages. Rex Stout detective fiction mystery novels Nero Wolfe Archie Goodwin politics and literature The Black Mountain The Doorbell Rang Not Quite Dead Enough Booby Trap Too Many Cooks The Illustrious Dunderheads J. Edgar Hoover FBI COINTELPRO Senator Joseph McCarthy Fascism Communism Nazism racism censorship Democracy Individualism isolationism WWII conventional values form content English Language and Literature
3	Any Other Immoral Purpose: The Mann Act, Policing Women, and the American State, 1900 – 1941 Pliley, Jessica Rae 22 October 2010 (has links) No description available. African Americans American History American Studies Black History Criminology Gender History Womens Studies white slavery Mann Act prostitution women FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation immigration progressive era vice history sexuality Jack Johnson J. Edgar Hoover BOI Stanley Finch sex trafficking trafficking of women and girls

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