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  • The Church Committee Report

    Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State

    After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens.Fifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The Church Committee confirmed the nation’s worst fears about the unchecked ... Leer más

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  • The Listeners

    A History of Wiretapping in the United States

    de Brian Hochman ...
    They’ve been listening for longer than you think. A new history reveals how—and why.Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century ... Leer más

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  • Savage Preservation

    The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology

    de Brian Hochman ...
    During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink of extinction. They also believed that films, photographs, and phonographic recordings—modern media in their technological infancy—could capture lasting relics of primitive life before it vanished into obscurity. For many Americans, the promise of media ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Church Committee Report

    Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation into the National Security State

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    19 hora 41 minutos

    After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, accessible volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of the US government spying on its own citizens.Fifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The Church Committee confirmed the nation's worst fears about the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Listeners

    A History of Wiretapping in the United States

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    Narrado por Phil Thron ...

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    8 hora 31 minutos

    Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early twentieth century—and they have spied on their own customers too. Such breaches of privacy once ... Leer más

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  • G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

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    **Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWinner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington Post and Smithsonian Magazine and a New York Times ... Leer más

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  • The Burglary

    The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

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    **INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS (IRE) BOOK AWARD WINNER • The story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.“Impeccably ... Leer más

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  • Rise of the Warrior Cop

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  • January 6

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    Americans were shocked and outraged to see chaos unfold at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The melee shut down plans by some Republican lawmakers to object to Congress’s official certification of the 2020 presidential election results.Democrats, the news media, and many leading Republicans immediately blamed the roughly four-hour disturbance on President Trump. The president “incited an ... Leer más

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  • Democracy in the Dark

    The Seduction of Government Secrecy

    "A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in" ( The Washington Post ).From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, ... Leer más

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  • Kennedy Justice

    Finalist for the National Book Award: A groundbreaking portrait of the intersection of law and politics in Robert F. Kennedy's Department of JusticeAs United States Attorney General, the young, legally inexperienced Robert F. Kennedy sat at the head of a vast department tasked with enforcing the law and defending the rights of an entire nation. Although his family connection to the White House ... Leer más

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  • The Wars of Watergate

    The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon

    This is the first truly comprehensive history of the political explosion that shook America in the 1970s, and whose aftereffects are still being felt in public life today. Drawing on contemporary documents, personal interviews, memoirs, and a vast quantity of new material, Stanley Kutler shows how President Nixon’s obstruction of justice from the White House capped a pattern of abuse that marked ... Leer más

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