Whistleblowing Nation : The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy.
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TextUtgivningsuppgift: New York : Columbia University Press, 2020Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2020Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (393 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9780231550680
- 353.4/60973
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman -- 1. The Paradox of National Security Whistleblowing: Locating and Framing a History of the Phenomenon, by Hannah Gurman and Kaeten Mistry -- 2. From Censorship to Classification: The Evolution of the Espionage Act, by Sam Lebovic -- 3. The Devil's Advocate: Leonard B. Boudin, Civil Liberties, and the Legal Defense of Whistleblowing, by Julia Rose Kraut -- 4. Celebrity Hero: Daniel Ellsberg and the Forging of Whistleblower Masculinity, by Lida Maxwell -- 5. The Rise and Fall of Anti-Imperial Whistleblowing in the Long 1970s, by Kaeten Mistry -- 6. Winter Soldiers of the Dark Side: CIA Whistleblowers and National Security Dissent, by Jeremy Varon -- 7. From the Mundane to the Absurd: The Advent and Evolution of Prepublication Review, by Richard H. Immerman -- 8. The Public Sphere Hero: Representations of Whistleblowing in U.S. Culture, by Timothy Melley -- 9. Creating Uncertainty, Casting Doubt: U.S. Intelligence Leaks from Reform to Spyware for Sale, by Matthew L. Jones -- 10. Unfit to Print: The Press and the Contragate Whistleblowers, by Hannah Gurman -- 11. The Challenge of Journalism and the Truth in Our Times: James Risen, Judith Miller, and National Security Reporting, by Lloyd C. Gardner -- Coda: Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing, and Civil Disobedience, by David Pozen -- Conclusion, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman -- Further Reading -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines, Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state secrets that challenge the status quo.
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