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  • The Listeners

    A History of Wiretapping in the United States

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

  • Savage Preservation

    The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • 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 ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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    The Church Committee Report

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

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    19 heure 41 min

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Listeners

    A History of Wiretapping in the United States

    par Brian Hochman ...
    Lu par Phil Thron ...

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    8 heure 31 min

    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 ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    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 ... En savoir plus

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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 ... En savoir plus

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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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Democracy in the Dark

    The Seduction of Government Secrecy

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  • The Wars of Watergate

    The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon

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