Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World Contributor(s): Engelhardt, Tom (Author), Greenwald, Glenn (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1608463656 ISBN-13: 9781608463657 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Intelligence & Espionage - Political Science | American Government - National - Political Science | Civil Rights |
Dewey: 327.127 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later, everything about that invisible government has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized. |